Accomplish Quote by Honore de Balzac

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

— Frederic Bastiat

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

— Georg Buchner

“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

— Alexander Hamilton

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis…

— George Washington

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

— Anonymous

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to…

— Honore de Balzac

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

— Lord Acton

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

— John Winthrop

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

— Sophie Swetchine

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

— Fisher Ames