The Rose and the Thistle: December 2014

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert gather around their
Christmas tree with their children, from the
Illustrated London News, 1848

Favourite Quotes

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about."
- G.K. Chesterton
"The Legitimist is, above all things, a king's man, and in his eyes democracy is an accursed condition, to be prevented at all costs."
- Melville Henry Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny et Raineval
"I am a true servant of my King and country, not only as a dutiful subject but because I am a convinced monarchist, politically and intellectually. I mean by that, quite apart from myself and my relationship to my Bavarian and German fatherland, I believe monarchy to be the most successful form of government that the history of mankind has known."
- Adolf Freiherr von Harnier
"Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or Spanish, Quebecois or Canadian. What about those who feel they are both?"
- Michael Ignatieff

The Rose and the Thistle

Thursday 25 December 2014

Merry Christmas!