Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism. — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism. — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family.… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I always said a good despotism was the best form of government; and I am twice as much in favour of it… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny… An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“There’s no English equivalent for silovik. It doesn’t translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the… — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“A general State educationis a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You seem to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions; a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism." — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Copy Share Image
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.” — Junius Copy Share Image
