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oligarchies

«The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy»
«Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos»
«Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.»
«An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.»
«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.»