"Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many,……" — Andrew Johnson
"Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one."
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Andrew Johnson
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27 Quotes by Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson has 27 quotes on this site.
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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
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The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
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I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with…
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The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands…
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Let them impeach and be damned.
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For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled…
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There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who…
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Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men,…
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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is…
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I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I…
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More Despotism Quotes
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
— Honore de Balzac
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We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world,…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining…
— Thomas Huxley
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished…
— Honore de Balzac
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
— Herbert Spencer
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