Government Quote by Thomas Jefferson

There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent…

— Tom Robbins

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

— George Bernard Shaw

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

— Aristotle

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it…

— Thomas Jefferson

What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system…

— H. P. Lovecraft