"A superfluity of wealth, and a train of……" — Mercy Otis Warren
"A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy."
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30 Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren has 30 quotes on this site.
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The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.
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The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of…
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It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of…
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Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
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The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests…
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The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
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The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion…
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Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government…
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The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified…
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But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart…
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It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
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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.
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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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