Logo
Quote by Walter Bagehot
The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, t

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. – Walter Bagehot

Other quotes by Walter Bagehot

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Freedom
Author
Walter Bagehot
Read Quote

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Presidency
Author
Walter Bagehot
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Royalty, Kings, Queens
category

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all. – Edward VII

Category:
Royalty, Kings, Queens

Being a princess isnt all its cracked up to be. – Princess of Wales Diana

Category:
Royalty, Kings, Queens

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum — which does not happen to a lot of people. – Prince Philip Edinburgh

Category:
Royalty, Kings, Queens

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. – Queen Elizabeth

Category:
Royalty, Kings, Queens

Random Quotes

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

Category:
Martyr, Martyrdom

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974

Category:
Science

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. – William Butler Yeats

Category:
alone

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship. – Tony Garza

Category:
Friendship