To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism. — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but… — Richard Mitchell 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
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
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
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 has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“The claim to political equality was then supplemented by the demand for economic democracy, which was to give substance to the ideal… — Smith III, Ted J Copy Share Image
I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
[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
Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I… — William Floyd Copy Share Image
It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each… — Voltaire 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
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion. — Antoine Rivarol 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
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
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
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