The Heterodox Wisdom of Monarchists
I was watching a National Geographic documentary on pirates with my parents, and they had some sociologist/historian commenting on how "democratic" and "egalitarian" the character of pirate ships were in decision-making, as if they were a model of good governance, and ahead of their times. I had to stop from laughing. Yeah, I find humor in stupid stuff. I made one of my wisecracks, "well, it seems democracy and piracy go hand in hand."
If I must be enslaved let it be by a King at least, and not by a parcel of upstart lawless Committeemen. If I must be devoured, let me be devoured by the jaws of a lion, and not gnawed to death by rats and vermin.
—Samuel Seabury, Anglican Bishop, British Loyalist
Why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for 3000 tyrants one mile away?['Martin, I understood you to be a patriot.']
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"An elected legislature can trample a man's rights just as easily as a king can."
—Benjamin Martin, (played by Mel Gibson), The Patriot
"Even 51 per cent of a nation can establish a totalitarian and dictatorial règime, suppress minorities, and still remain democratic; there is, as we have said, little doubt that the American Congress and the French Chambre have a power over their respective nations which would rouse the envy of a Louis XIV or a George III were they alive today."
—Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Liberty or Equality, p. 88.
