Affair Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Nobility should be elective, not hereditary.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case…

— Aristotle

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

— Plato

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

— Ezra Stiles

“A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.”

— Thomas Paine

There's got to be a balance of appreciating 'Succession' and appreciating 'King of Queens.' Those worlds have to exist together. Now you have too…

— Nate Bargatze

“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make…

— Frank Herbert

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

— Tony Abbott

“We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who were allotted to us, that…

— Seneca

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for…

— James A. Garfield

The people have a right supreme To make their kings, for Kings are made for them. All Empire is no more than Pow'r in…

— John Dryden

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner…

— Alberto Moravia