The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy. -
Emily Dickinson
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. -
Thomas Jefferson
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. -
Xenophon
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 Christoph Lichtenberg
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. -
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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. -
Thomas Jefferson
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. -
John Adams
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. -
James Bryant Conant
