If, which I doubt, the political governance of men was a matter of interest to him, he would have had them governed by oligarchical forms.

Such had been the forms in Rome, in which, though the votes of the people were the source of all power, the votes hardly went further than the selection of this or that oligarch.

Pompey no doubt felt the expediency of maintaining the old order of things, in the midst of which he had been born to high rank, and had achieved the topmost place either by fortune or by merit.
For any heartfelt conviction as to what might be best for his country or his countrymen, in what way he might most surely use his power for the good of the citizens generally, we must, I think, look in vain to that Pompey whom history has handed down to us.

But, of all matters which interested Cicero, the governance of men interested him the most.

How should the great Rome of his day rise to greater power than ever, and yet be as poor as in the days of her comparative insignificance?
How should Rome be ruled so that Romans might be the masters of the world, in mental gifts as well as bodily strength, in arts as well as in arms--as by valor, so by virtue?
He, too, was an oligarch by strongest conviction.