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— Thomas Jefferson"An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies."
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Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.
— Robert Bellarmine
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