Another man Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an…

— Lysander Spooner

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

— Daniel Webster

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

— George W. Bush

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

— Max Stirner

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of…

— Calvin Coolidge

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear,…

— Albert Pike

“It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams…

— Maximilien de Robespierre

Self-government is the highest form of government.

— Anonymous

Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless --…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

— Walter Bagehot