[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood. — James Madison Copy Share Image
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It has taken seas of blood to drown the idol of despotism, but the English do not think they bought their laws… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Russell observes that "the merits of democracy are negative: it does not ensure good government, but it prevents certain evils," such as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. — Samuel Horsley Copy Share Image
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead,… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men,… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
The supreme mystery of despotism, its prop and stay, is to keep men in a state of deception, and with the specious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs.… — Rami Ollaik Copy Share Image
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
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