Aristocracy Quotes - Page 7

• Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

  George Washington

  Rights, Government, Long

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• I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

  John Adams

  Running, Democracies Have, Long

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.405, Regnery Publishing

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• The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Office, May

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.

  Michael Parenti

  Order, Broken, Overcoming

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• I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Virginia, Foundation

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• Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

  Gene Kelly

  Proletariat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You can prove that a man is not the son of a king, or that he is not the delegate of a definite number of people. But you cannot prove that a man is not a gentleman.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Kings, Son, Men

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• The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Men, People

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

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• I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

  Paloma Faith

  Thinking, Proud, British

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• Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Cheater, People, Historical

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• Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nobility, Piety

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.82, Ravenio Books

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• There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

  Nelson DeMille

  Book, Long, Majority

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• Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

  Mark Twain

  Rhode Island, Islands, Speak

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.418, Univ of California Press

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• In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

  Nigel Cole

  Class, England, Film

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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

  Religious, Law, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.426, Penguin

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• As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

  Christopher Bollen

  Thinking, Climbing, Murder Mysteries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, People, Ambitious

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wealth, Democratic

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• As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by property, and by individuals in proportion to their property. A Property Tax should be an assessment upon all land and buildings, and canals and railroads, but not on property such as machinery, stock in trade, etc. The aristocracy have squeezed all they can out of the mass of the consumers, and now they lay their daring hands on those not wholly impoverished.

  John Bright

  Assessment, Hands, Land

  Letter to his sister Margaret, 1842. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, pp. 72-73, 1913.

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• A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

  Mark Twain

  Strength, Mistake, Purpose

  Mark Twain (2017). “MARK TWAIN Ultimate Collection: 370+ Titles in One Volume (Illustrated): The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The £1,000,000 Bank Note, A Horse’s Tale, Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Innocents Abroad, Life on the Mississippi…”, p.1507, e-artnow

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• The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Natural, Found

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.232

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• Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

  Harold Pinter

  Class, Want, Dies

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• There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.

  Frances Wright

  Country, Ignorance, People

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.55

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• What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

  Moliere

  Men, Wicked, Lord

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• Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

  Moliere

  Mean, Birth, Virtue

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