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
The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Your most bitter enemies are the values imposed on you without your choice. Those idols have taken away your freedom from you;… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
“In Virginia, the printing press was deliberately restricted by the powers that be, to keep reading matter from the masses, while the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“But you are our equal, if not our superior," the Guermantes seemed, in all their actions, to be saying; and they said… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
But to some extent, the whole aspect of Fascism was a real hot potato. Because so many of the aristocracy were enamored… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Why, I believe Sir Ector would have been gladder to get a by-our-lady tilting blue for your tutor, that swings himself along… — Merlyn Copy Share Image
“had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organisers, publicity experts,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives.… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — W. H. Auden 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
“the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The negative side of democracy is that the position of ideological minorities is not in power. However, the ideological minorities are often… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If you stick to the old values and say that you were educated in this way, so you were trained in this… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her… — Bob Saget 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
The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy… It has… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
“As far as she was concerned, aristocracy had nothing to do with money or social position. Aristocracy was linked to a nobility… — Patricia Bosworth Copy Share Image
“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The Services offer the cleanest and most natural support to an aggressive foreign policy; expansion of the empire appeals powerfully to the… — J.A. Hobson Copy Share Image
The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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