"Reading The Monarchist is like entering an Edwardian Gentlemen's Club during the era of Swinging London, the hippie rabble bangs at the door demanding entrance; the members simply order the cellist to play forte and continue with the debate and the port." - The Gods of the Copybook Headings
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. - Benjamin Disraeli
Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all. - Aristotle
- God Save the Queen -
I declare before you that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of the great Imperial Commonwealth to which we all belong. - Princess Elizabeth, 1947
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. - William Shakespeare
Honourary Patron of the English-Speaking Peoples
Brave Old Lion, British Prime Minister, Statesman, Soldier and Author, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Stalwart Defender of the Sacred Crown, Heroic Leader of the Free World, Honourary Citizen of the United States, Magnanimous Victor of the English-Speaking Peoples, so on and so forth.
Witness below the most ambitious linkfest/quotefest in the Anglosphere, growing with each passing day! You can never stop linking to the Crown - a river runs through it.
Monarchy can easily be debunked, but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere equality they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison - C.S. Lewis
This royal throne of kings, this sceptr'd isle/This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars/This other Eden, demi-paradise...This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England... - William Shakespeare
...if the British Empire and Commonwealth should last a thousand years, men will still say this was their finest hour. - Prime Minister Winston Churchill
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. - Arthur Wellesley - The Duke of Wellington, 1815
- Defender of the Faith -
The character of Kings is sacred; their persons are inviolable; they are the anointed of the Lord, if not with sacred oil, at least by virtue of their office. Their power is broad - based upon the Will of God, and not on the shifting sands of the people's will. They will be spoken of with becoming reverence, instead of being in public estimation fitting butts for all foul tongues. It becomes a sacrilege to violate their persons, and every indignity offered to them in word or act, becomes an indignity offered to God Himself. - Archbishop John Healy
Archbishop: Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, ...and of your Possessions and other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?
To every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods. - Thomas Babbington Macaulay
Yes there is a justification for tradition on the grounds of tradition alone: thus it is, and ever thus it has been, and ne'er has a soul come to harm because of it! - Andrew Cusack
I know a man whose school could never teach him patriotism, but who acquired that virtue when he felt in his bones the vastness of his land, and the greatness of its founders. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau
The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high-road that leads him to England. - Samuel Johnson
- Fount of Justice -
And in choosing to leave the selection of their head of state to this most common denominator in the world - the accident of birth - Canadians implicitly proclaim their faith in human equality; their hope for the triumph of nature over political manoeuvre, over financial and social interest; for the victory of the human person. - Jacques Monet
Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them. - G. K. Chesterton
The King feels so strongly that, no matter the crime committed by anyone on whom the VC has been conferred, the decoration should not be forfeited. Even were a VC to be sentenced to be hanged for murder, he should be allowed to wear his VC on the gallows. - Lord Stamfordham, 1920
...in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. - Edmund Burke
- Commander-in-Chief -
In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill. - Sir Winston Churchill, K.G. (1874-1965)
Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. - General of the Army Douglas MacArthur 'Duty Honor Country' speech, Westpoint 1962
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. - General Douglas MacArthur
- In Flanders Fields -
We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow...If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. - Lt.Col. John McCrae (1872-1918)
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them. - Laurence Binyon, For the Fallen
Loyalty is the cardinal virtue -- loyalty to God and to the Queen; loyalty to our own British institutions of justice, freedom and parliamentary democracy, loyalty to one’s job. For nations, no less than individuals, are members of one another, and together they must make war -- not on each other, for that road leads to hell, but on the evils that beset us all -- injustice, disease, poverty and above all, apathy - Viscount Cobham
May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious Victory; and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the British Fleet. For myself, individually, I commit my life to Him who made me, and may his blessing light upon my endeavours for serving my Country faithfully. To Him I resign myself and the just cause which is entrusted to me to defend. Amen. Amen. Amen. - Horatio Nelson
- Queens Regiments -
The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. - Arthur Wellesley - The Duke of Wellington, 1815
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. - William Shakespeare
A man's home is his castle. - Sir Edward Coke, 1581
- The Gentleman -
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. - Gerard Hopkins
The most famous cigar quote comes from King Edward VII of England. During the reign of Queen Victoria, smoking was frowned upon and not allowed at court. That changed when Edward VII came to the throne at the beginning of the 20th Century, and after dinner pronounced, "Gentlemen, you may smoke".
- Crown-in-Parliament -
Above the ebb and flow of party strife, the rise and fall of ministries, and individuals, the changes of public opinion or public fortune, the British Monarchy presides, ancient, calm and supreme within its function, over all the treasures that have been saved from the past and all the glories we write in the annals of our country. - Winston Churchill
The attitude of successive governments towards the monarchy is that of the urchin, secretly urinating on some shrub in the hope that it will die. - Peter Brimelow
As nature’s ties decay As duty, love, and honour fail to sway,
Fictitious bonds, the bonds of wealth and law,
Still gather strength, and force unwilling awe. - Oliver Goldsmith
I have always said, the first Whig was the Devil. - Samuel Johnson
- Queens Prime Ministers -
Today we need a special kind of courage, not the kind needed in battle but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future. - Queen Elizabeth II, 1957
Thereupon the people picked a leader nearer to their mood, Churchill, who was at any rate able to grasp that wars are not won without fighting. - George Orwell
It dares him to think of his country in poetic terms, as a people and a place whose story has some meaning beyond the merely explicable. - Andrew Coyne
Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history. - Charles Burnett, 1997
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians. - Baroness Thatcher, 1995
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Mark 8:36
- Head of the Commonwealth -
The Crown has become the mysterious link, may I say the magic link, which unites our loosely bound but strongly interwoven Commonwealth of Nations, states and races. People who would never tolerate the assertions of a written Constitution which implies any diminution of their independence are the foremost to be proud of their loyalty to the Crown. - Winston Churchill
The Anglican Communion has no peculiar thought, practice, creed or confession of its own. It has only the Catholic Faith of the ancient Catholic Church, as preserved in the Catholic Creeds and maintained in the Catholic and Apostolic constitution of Christ's Church from the beginning. - Dr Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945-1961
God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. - Russell Crowe
The mark of insanity is reason without a root, reason in a void. - G.K. Chesterton
A nation that calls itself a kingdom is a nation with a sense of gravitas, with a future and a past and an equal ease with either. In the descent of kings it traces its own glorious passage through the generations. A monarchy is something to live up to, and to wonder at. It is not fed to us in predigested chunks of reason. You either get it or you don't. - Andrew Coyne
Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all. - Aristotle
But the glory has been the glory of pasteboard, and the wealth has been the wealth of tinsel. - Anthony Trollope
No one can understand tradition, or even history, who has not some tenderness for anachronism. - G.K. Chesterton
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. - Abraham Lincoln
Commonwealth Poll: What is your constitutional preference following the demise of our Queen?
7 comments:
Beautiful.
Now if we could just get rid of the monarchy Canada would be a better place.
Thank you Padre. That was outstanding.
Joe: Give me ten reasons why Canada would be a better place?
Brilliant stuff. May God bring it success.
I signed the petition... but I feel a bit alone. Hence, it seems I am the only Quebec citizen who signed it.
I have seen a few, Patrice, though far more would be desirable.
I'm from south of the border, but that was so well done. Godspeed to your cause.
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