monarchy

"My children," said the Oldest and Wisest Ape in All the World, when he had heard the Deputation, "you did right in ridding yourselves of tyranny, but your tribe is not sufficiently advanced to dispense with the forms of monarchy. Entice the tyrant back with fair promises, kill him and enthrone.

For if there ever was a sovereign who bid fair to realize the project of universal monarchy, it was the Emperor Charles V., of whose intrigues Wolsey was at once the instrument and the dupe.

Domestic government is a monarchy, for that is what prevails in every house; but a political state is the government of free men and equals.

In Germany they fight with the bourgeoisie whenever it acts in a revolutionary way, against the absolute monarchy, the feudal squirearchy, and the petty bourgeoisie.

To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags -- that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was invented by monarchy; let monarchy keep it.

One of them disorganized by revolutionary changes, the other rusted in the neglect of a decayed monarchy, the two fleets opposed to us entered the contest with odds against them from the first.

A monarchy, where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute tyranny; as that of the Turks.

IN today's era of political transparency and of nations facing up to the mistakes that they made in the past, there is no excuse for the English monarchy to continue to use and to hog the title Prince of Wales.

In Britain and Ireland, there is a tradition of republican discourse -- naturally strong in the Scottish National Party -- which identifies Britain's monarchy as a symbol of an empire-building state which was always loosely cobbled together out of four nations, which required huge amounts of imperial mythology to sustain it, and which has now signally failed to reform itself for a more democratic age; and in the case of UK, there is plenty of evidence to support that view, not so much in the conduct of the monarchy itself -- which often seems to understand more about modern devolved Britain than the Westminster government does -- as in the bizarrely reverential attitude to it of so many British establishment figures and institutions.

Former King Gyanendra's recent pilgrimage to the two eastern hill districts Ilam and Panchthar and earlier pilgrimage to the mid-Tarai districts have given clear message that still the institution of monarchy is the hope among the people.