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

The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at…

— Fouad Ajami

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

— Pierre Corneille

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny… An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions…

— William Godwin

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 Robespierre

“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if…

— Plato

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul.…

— Oscar Wilde

The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government,…

— George Washington

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

— George Bernard Shaw

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

— Philip Pullman

“In 1870, came the victory of the short-service troops of Prussia over the long-service troops of France, where conscription had but recently been reintroduced…

— B.H. Liddell Hart