To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as…

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy…

— Aristotle

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

— Lysander Spooner

“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” And if they would destroy economies, they first create a wealthy class on top, and…

— Michael Hudson

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

— L. Neil Smith

Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to…

— Lawrence Hunter

“Decisions are free when each of us settles his path through life by negotiation, playing his cards according to his own best judgement and…

— Roger Scruton

“Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist writing; the…

— Martha Ackelsberg

More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness…

— Hunter S. Thompson

In the last presidential election Obama and Romney raised about $1 billion each. The Koch brothers, the second wealthiest family in America, now say…

— Bernie Sanders

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The…

— Aristotle

“the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth”

— George Orwell

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy…

— Pat Robertson

“He did not see that the continuity of an oligarchy need not be physical, nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have…

— George Orwell

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements…

— Harold Bloom