Despotism Quote by Calvin Coolidge

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an…

— Lysander Spooner

“This point deserves attention, for if a democratic republic similar to that of the United States were ever founded in a country where the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust…

— Oscar Wilde

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

— Mary McCarthy

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

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and…

— David Brin

A despotism resting on a plebicite is quite as natural a form of democracy as a republic.

— Latest

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

— Arabella Weir

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

— Aristotle