Quote of the Month

Writes Mr. Jim Matthews at An Unquiet Mind:

[A] democracy assumes that there is no ultimate good, that there is only more or less bad, and therefore the two sides of a binary, which should, in theory, represent the polar opposite beliefs regarding whatever subject, can only bicker back and forth, struggling for power without achieving much other than the establishment of the notion that we can only hope for a less bad government. Meanwhile, monarchy, for all its tyrannical possibilities, also offers the only possibility of a truly good government, a government undiluted by power-plays and greed and the innumerable other vulgarities that any number of men thrown together might use to manipulate the governance of a country to their own private ends. A monarch who recognizes the responsibility of reigning sovereign over men doesn't face such scheming, and, consequently, may more easily install a just order within his domain.

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