I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

I love liberty, I hate equality.

— John Randolph of Roanoke

“I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.”

— Colin Woodard

“Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men,…

— Michel de Montaigne

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong…

— H. L. Mencken

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom

— Georg Buchner

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

— Benjamin Rush

I always use the same comparison: Ian McKellen isn't a wizard. I'm not a 19-year-old aristocrat from the 19th century. It's all made up.

— Nicola Coughlan

“What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly. 'Reverence,' he replied.”

— Elizabeth Goudge

Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant…

— Alain de Botton

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

— John Updike

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

— Lytton Strachey

“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.”

— Frank Herbert

“You can learn how to be an aristocrat by following a few rules in a very short book. There is nothing to it.” He…

— Heather O'Neill