"The faith in reason insists that the poverty……" — Bill Vaughan
"The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism."
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191 Quotes by Bill Vaughan
Bill Vaughan has 191 quotes on this site.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody…
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The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
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Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
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Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.
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If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in…
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to…
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As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.
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It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets…
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At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest…
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More Aristocracy Quotes
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
— Josh Billings
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe…
— Benjamin Carson
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world,…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. .…
— James Bryant Conant
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