Monarchy Power Quotes

Your dependence upon the crown is no advantage, but rather an injury to the people of Britain, as it increases the power and influence of the King.

In Prussia it is only kings who make revolutions.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

It lies in the power of no parliament to make any kind of law or statute, without his [the king's] scepter be to it, for giving it the force of law.

The royal family are protected from public accountability by law.

The present King and Queen are popular, very, and increasingly so, but they have no message for the Labour Party who believe them, and rightly I fear, to be but the puppets of a Palace clique…. Still, it is the aristocracy which still rules England although nobody seems to believe it.

In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappings of monarchy disappear, ultimately serves the endurance of Judaism very well.

The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

We stand at present on the confines between the liberty of the subject and the prerogatives of the king.