aristocrat quotes

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

- RalphWaldo Emerson
  Representative Men,'Napoleon, the Man of the World'.

Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocratone Who can rule and dare not lie.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.10, stanza 5, l.389^95.