Money Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Despotism is a long crime.

— Victor Hugo

“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.”

— James M. Buchanan

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.”

— Junius

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

— Arabella Weir

“Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism.”

— Garry Wills

“Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.”

— Daniel Alarcón

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.”

— John Adams