Democracy Quote by Andrew Johnson

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

— William Wells Brown

“Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render 'assurance doubly sure,' one kind of despotism supports another.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities,…

— Allan Bloom

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed,…

— James Madison

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

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

— Jacob Burckhardt

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

— Edmund Burke

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

— James Madison

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody…

— John Locke