Life Quote by Friedrich Hayek

“Still, Tocqueville knew that the governing despotism of which he wrote, and which can accurately and broadly be characterized as utopianism, is, for free…

— Mark R. Levin

“A government of five hundred country attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight…

— Edmund Burke

“I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.”

— Jeff Grubb

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly…

— Mark Twain

“No powerful nation can truly last forever, no matter how inpersanistic”

— Eiríka Krogsæter

“. . .for the designated successor to royal authority, the Sovereign People, was no more capable than Louis XVI of reconciling freedom with power.”

— Simon Schama

“it is impossible for a free people to govern a dependent people despotically without endangering its own freedom.”

— John Fiske

“tyranny cannot stand forever. It is an ugly beast that must feed. Eventually, the Empire will devour everything it has, and will turn on…

— Christie Golden

“It has been the will of Heaven," the essay began, "that we should be thrown into existence at a period when the greatest philosophers…

— David McCullough

“In despotic governments wars are the effect of pride; but in those governments in which they become the means of taxation, they acquire thereby…

— Thomas Paine

“The idea had always struck Shader as bizarre: entrusting the governance of a country to the whims of an uneducated mob. No sense in…

— D.P. Prior