Quotes Tagged With :aristocracy

Reform or no reform, he never ceased to promote the interests of St. Denis and the Royal House of France....

[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant....

Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so....

There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive....

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly....

In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; wealth....

He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.

..the guests milled back and forth: men stood with their heads together, discussing politics and crops,....

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty....