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• A monied aristocracy in our country ... has already set the government at defiance.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)...
• Aristocracy is always cruel. -- Wendell Phillip
• There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...
• What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• Taxing the country into prosperity: Clinocchio!
• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
  -- G. K. Chesterto...
• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
  -- James Bryant Cona...
• PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment.
  One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• No country in history has ever taxed itself into prosperity.