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Aristocracy Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set…
- The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would…
- I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient…
- There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…
- I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.
- Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
- The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
- I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by…
- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions…
- I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already…
More Aristocracy Quotes
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
- There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
- But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when… — Benjamin Carson
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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
- It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .… — James Bryant Conant