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Pat Robertson

But if there’s an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we’ve made a terrible mistake.

– Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson

It’s the tyranny of an oligarchy that I’m concerned about.

– Pat Robertson

Montesquieu

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.

– Montesquieu

Lysander Spooner

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

– Lysander Spooner

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

For decades, the Burmese military has been a tool of oligarchy and suppression.

– Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Jimmy Carter

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

– Jimmy Carter

Jason Mraz

As an American citizen, one has to vote. If we don’t vote, we’re not doing our part. We’ll become some sort of oligarchy.

– Jason Mraz

Henry A Wallace

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

– Henry A Wallace

Heather Cox Richardson

If Republican leaders are willing to enable Trump’s autocratic enthusiasms in return for oligarchy, American democracy will die.

– Heather Cox Richardson

Finn Jones

The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn’t be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.

– Finn Jones

Douglas Southall Freeman

The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed ‘errors’ in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.

– Douglas Southall Freeman

Chris Hayes

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: ‘Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.’

– Chris Hayes

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