Government Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial…

— Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“With the land and possession of America rapidly passing into the hands of a favored few; with great corporations taking the place of individual…

— Clarence Darrow

We boast of being one of the oldest democracies in existence and it is a point of pride for many of us that British…

— Layla Moran

Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been…

— John Edward Redmond

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

— Ezra Stiles

“There are, I believe, some who still deny that England is governed by an oligarchy. It is quite enough for me to know that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above the state…

— George Orwell

“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures,…

— Ignatius Donnelly

“We may feel, in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture and our ecosystem, powerless and weak. But we…

— Chris Hedges