Despotism Quotes · Page 5

“Russell observes that "the merits of democracy are negative: it does not ensure good government, but it prevents certain evils," such as…

— Bertrand Russell

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

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact…

— Irving Kristol

“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

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,…

— George Mason

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

— Honore de Balzac

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

— Thomas Jefferson

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

— Walter Savage Landor

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through…

— Edmund Burke

The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like.

— Cardinal Mazarin

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

— Barry Goldwater

People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material…

— Rudolf Rocker

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

— Thomas Carlyle

The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its…

— Thomas Jefferson

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,'…

— Thomas Sowell

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism…

— Terry Pratchett

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve…

— Thomas Jefferson

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

— James Madison