Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn on Monarchy

“Monarchy was historically always the best protection against any sort of oligarchical rule and it was the historic role of monarchs to side with the lower classes against the nobility.”

“Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe likens the democratic procedure to a small child wanting his wishes fufilled immediately, and protests in tears if there is a delay or a negative reaction. A monarch, as a member of a dynasty, can plan for the distant future, even for generations.”

“From childhood, monarchs were prepared for their duties. They “inherited” their profession as traditionally as craftsmen did theirs. The son of a tailor became a tailor, and so forth. These tailors produced sometimes bad garments, occasionally excellent ones but usually passable ones. So, too, with monarchs.”

“One might raise the objection that monarchy is a wicked system of government because it attempts to imitate the great monarcha of the cosmos and therefore contains a certain element of blasphemy. Yet the very cell of human society, the family, in its natural form is also a patriarchal monarchy guided by the same natural-cosmic principle.”