Despotism Quote by Lajos Kossuth Download Open image “Fear must rule in a despotism.” — Lajos Kossuth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despotism Fear
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Fear only exists within the mind and is given power through belief.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“Fear is a great possession to distribute to those unworthy trust or respect.” — Ricky Sniffen Copy Share Image
“Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“Fear is like a weed in a garden. Once you allow it to take root, it spreads, replicating itself, until, eventually, it chokes out… — Breeana Puttroff Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by,… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators. — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution,… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom. — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and founder of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not,… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
