“[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took… — Violet Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Subconsciously it is possible to act, consciously it is possible to decide and overconsciously to create. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. — Charles A. Beard Copy Share Image
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
A person with noble soul will never cease ignoring the provocation. The nobility of his soul is the only answer to these… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.You could claim that it's due to my military… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
