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«The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over.»
«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
«Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
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«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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«There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the ''money touch',' but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, democrat, furnished, gifted, glorified, pawnbroker, pawnbrokers, plutocracy
«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:
aristocracies, aristocracy, artificial, ascendancy, birth, founded, ingredient, mischievous, prevent, provisions, talents, virtue, wealth
«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
«There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.»
«There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class»
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