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

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

There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at the very source. They begin life trampling on all their younger brothers and sisters, and relations of every kind, and are taught and educated so to do. With what ideas of justice or honor can that man enter a house of legislation, who absorbs in his own person the inheritance of a whole family of children, or metes out some pitiful portion with the insolence of a gift?

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.