Aristocracy Quote by Thomas Jefferson

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

— Ezra Stiles

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

— 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

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The worst thing in the world, next to anarchy, is government.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

— Woodrow Wilson

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

— Pat Robertson

ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte