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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.
— Nancy Astor
Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy , joining arm in arm against change.
— John Ferling
The aristocracy had crumbled in her hands; the power vacuum she purchased was a good decision.
— Charli Frisky
One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.
— Susan Jacoby
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
— George Bernard Shaw
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.
— Thomas Jefferson
That was what the season was, after all- a marriage market for the offspring of the aristocracy.
— Marissa Doyle
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.
— Anthony Trollope
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Lords are lordliest in their wine.
— John Milton
Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.
— Anatole Broyard
Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.
— D.H. Lawrence
Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
— Kenneth Rexroth
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.
— Sophie Swetchine
Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.
— William Dwight Whitney
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.
— James Ransone
When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.
— Wendell Phillips
Aristocracy is always cruel.
— Wendell Phillips
Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.
— Inazo Nitobe
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.
— Ronald Syme
Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy,
— R.J. Rushdoony
It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.
— Kevin Hearne
Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.
— David Lloyd George
Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The law for religious freedom ... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
— Thomas Jefferson
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
— Thomas Paine
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book ...
— Catharine Beecher
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
— John Keats
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
— G.K. Chesterton
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.
— D.H. Lawrence
Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
— Thomas Jefferson
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
— James Bryant Conant
Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.
— Ramsay MacDonald
The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.
— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston
There is only one true aristocracy ... and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
— Tennessee Williams
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
— Charles Baudelaire
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
— James Salter
If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.
— John B. S. Haldane
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.
— Charles A. Beard
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
— Algernon Sidney
I'll be back later! Put that champagne on ice!
— Jackie Williams
If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.
— P.G. Wodehouse
The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
— Thomas Carlyle
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
— George Bernard Shaw
Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule, in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation.
— Milton Friedman
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
— E. M. Forster
We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.
— Alice Tisdale Hobart
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?
— Harold Pinter
There is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
An hereditary aristocracy ... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.
— Thomas Jefferson
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
— Nancy Mitford
I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.
— Michelle Dockery
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
— Ezra Stiles
Felix Mersey might be the cream of the aristocracy, but in the boiler room Soap was undisputed king - grimy empire though it might be.
— Gail Carriger
Despite a lifetime of social indoctrination, Marcus did not believe in aristocracy of any kind.
— Lisa Kleypas
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.
— Marquis De Lafayette
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
— Celia Green
...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.
— Andrea Lee
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
— Walter Savage Landor
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.
— Emily Dickinson
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
— Thomas Paine
Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!
— Heather Dixon
Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
— Josiah Strong