Aristocratic Rule Quotes

I am no leveller; I look upon an artificial equality as equally pernicious with a factitious aristocracy; both depressing the energies and checking the enterprise of a nation.

Soon there will only be five kings left, Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs and the King of England.

To detail the real evils of aristocracy, they must be seen in Europe.

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United] States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.

What is Aristocracy? A corporation of the best, the bravest.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

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