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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead”
Nancy Mitford

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.

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.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.
Carlyle Thomas

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