Best Despotic Sayings
- Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell
- I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job… — Anthony Bourdain
- You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for… — C.S. Lewis
- The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government. — Thomas Jefferson
- 'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age. — Alexis De Tocqueville
- There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic… — William Blackstone