Anti-Monarchism Quotes

Let us strangle the last king with the guts of the last priest.

Death to Pharaoh!

No! I stand by the man who works. To hell with kings!

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

... we have no dynasty of our own and no liking for a foreign dynasty.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.

The more unpopular politicians are, the better people think it is to have a monarchy.

To recommend what monarchies have done, They bring, for witness, David and his son; How one was brave, the other just and wise; And hence our plain Republics they despise; But mark how oft, to gratify their pride, The people suffered, and the people died; Though one was wise, and one Goliath slew, Kings are the choicest curse that man e’er knew!

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past.

I desire to be buried as far from kings and politicians as may be

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

But what topics of reconciliation are now left for men who think as I do, to address our countrymen? To recommend reverence for the monarch, or affection for the mother country? Will the distinctions between the prince and his ministers, between the people and their representatives, wipe out the stain of blood? Or have we the slightest reason to hope that those ministers and representatives will not be supported throughout the tragedy, as they have been through the first act? No. While we revere and love our mother country, her sword is opening our veins.

Abolish the monarchy. That is my populist take.

I hope We shall e’er long renounce some of our Monarchical Corruptions, and become Republicans in Principle in Sentiment, in feeling and in Practice. In Republican Governments the Majesty is all in the Laws. They only are to be adored.

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

Assuredly no one of us would ever propose to retain in France the fatal race of kings; we all know but too well that dynasties have never been anything else than rapacious tribes who lived on nothing, but human flesh. It is necessary completely to reassure the friends of liberty. We must destroy this talisman, whose magic power is still sufficient to stupefy many a man. I move accordingly that you sanction by a solemn law the abolition of royalty.

Any thing that proves that it is not in the power of Kings and Princes by their great armies to have every thing their own way is of such good example that without any good will to the French one can not help being delighted by it, and you know I have a natural partiality to what some people call rebels.

Here, every man labors for himself, and not to pamper the pride of royalty, not to support kingly pomp, luxury, and dissipation! Here, no ghostly priest stalks forth, and by virtue of prerogative seizes upon a tenth of the hard earnings of the industrious poor, leaving them in a state of want and wretchedness; but they may apply their little all to the conveniences of themselves and families.

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting - it squints towards monarchy. And does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king. Where are your checks in this government? I would rather infinitely - and I am sure most of this convention are of the same opinion - have a king, lords, and commons than a government so replete with such insupportable evils.

Every righteous Netherlander, like me, burns to take up arms in his hands to show that we are truly worthy of our French brothers and not as despicable as William of Orange [the Monarch William V] supposes.

Mine is the soul of a free man; ever since my fourth year it has been nourished on hatred to kings

With the view of operating on the sentiments of a religious people, scripture was pressed into his [Paine’s] service, and the powers, and even the name of a king was rendered odious in the eyes of the numerous colonists who had read and studied the history of the Jews, as recorded in the Old Testament. The folly of that people in revolting from a government, instituted by Heaven itself, and the oppressions to which they were subjected in consequence of their lusting after kings to rule over them, afforded an excellent handle for prepossessing the colonists in favour of republican institutions, and prejudicing them against kingly government.