I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms. — Richard Henry Dana, Jr Copy Share Image
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant,… — George Mason Copy Share Image
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is our pride that the Great Satan (U.S.) and the head of despotism, corruption and arrogance in modern times considers us… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is… — Elizabeth Van Lew Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes… This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, "Your stay with us is… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“American-style despotism is possible only if it has a large and influential base, and that potential exists in the religious right’s active… — John W. Dean Copy Share Image
When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
“Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render 'assurance doubly sure,' one kind of despotism supports… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“Under Catherine, the government wished to enjoy the glory of philosophical ideals but still maintain all the advantages of despotism. Our laws… — Martin Sixsmith Copy Share Image
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The whole conception of a God is a conception derived from the ancient oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“The late political scientist Aaron B. Wildavsky noted that “the power of the purse is the heart of legislative authority and thus… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
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