Despotism Quotes

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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. — Alexander Hamilton
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last,… — Alexander Hamilton
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because… — Thomas Huxley
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make… — Honore de Balzac
An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which… — Thomas Jefferson
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a… — Herbert Spencer
To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the… — Thomas Jefferson
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against… — Khalil Gibran
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and… — Ludwig von Mises
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and… — Thomas Jefferson
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of… — Thomas Jefferson
It is our pride that the Great Satan (U.S.) and the head of despotism, corruption and arrogance in modern times considers us as an enemy… — Hassan Nasrallah
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than… — James Madison
Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may… — Immanuel Kant

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