Despotism Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Arabella Weir

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

— Frederic Bastiat

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

— Edward Gibbon

Despotism is a long crime.

— Victor Hugo

Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

— Walter Savage Landor

“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.”

— James M. Buchanan

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.”

— John Adams

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of…

— Calvin Coolidge

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

— Walter Bagehot

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington