Absolute power Quote by John Adams

Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an…

— Lysander Spooner

An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

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

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

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name…

— John Stuart Mill

“The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“This point deserves attention, for if a democratic republic similar to that of the United States were ever founded in a country where the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism…

— Isaac Asimov

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will…

— Thomas Jefferson

“A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights…

— Patrick Henry