A despotism resting on a plebicite is quite as natural a form of democracy as a republic. — Latest Copy Share Image
The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like. — Cardinal Mazarin Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
[ Alexis de] Tocqueville said it in 1835, and it's as true today as it was then: 'Despotism may govern without faith,… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of… — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
“The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell ’s 1984 and the only difference… — Paul Joseph Watson Copy Share Image
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; the liberal Tories… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Socialism is the fantastic younger brother of almost decrepit despotism, which it wants to succeed; its efforts are, therefore, in the deepest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The work relationship has to be based on mutual respect. Psychological despotism is basically contemptuous—far more contemptuous than the traditional Theory X.… — Peter F. Drucker Copy Share Image
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