Believe Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis…

— George Washington

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

— Walter Bagehot

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in…

— Thomas Jefferson

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a…

— Anonymous

“In a democracy, there is no check against despotism, because the principle of democracy is supposed to be itself a check. But it guarantees…

— B.F. Skinner

Democracy passes into despotism.

— Plato

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

— Edward Gibbon

It would seem that if despotism were to be established among the democratic nations of our days, it might assume a different character; it…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate…

— Madame de Stael

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

— John Stuart Mill