Aristocracy Quote by Ezra Stiles

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with…

— Thomas Paine

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the…

— Frank Herbert

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give…

— Anna Julia Cooper

The more unpopular politicians are, the better people think it is to have a monarchy.

— Sarah Bradford

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

— Alexander Hamilton

“As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy,…

— Stacy Schiff

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing -…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of…

— Kenneth O. Gangel

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

— Ezra Stiles