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Letter "A" » aristocracies
«Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
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«Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos»
Author: Polybius
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, degenerated, degenerates, monarchies, monarchy, oligarchies, oligarchy, savage, The monarchy
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
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«Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Aristocracy,
Democracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, badly, democracy, educated, uneducated
«Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
affront, affronts, aristocracies, defect, degrade, flourish, loyal, monarchies, oppress
«An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, monarchies, monarchy, support, The monarchy
«There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Aristocracy
| Keywords:
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«Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Aristocracy,
Education
| Keywords:
arising, aristocracies, aristocracy, democracy
«I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, bid, Corporations, crush, defiance, moneyed, trial, warning
«It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, laborers, leisure time, prospect, recalls
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