Despotism Quote by Leon Gambetta Download Open image “Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.” — Leon Gambetta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Despotism Freedom Freedom of the press Political Presses Together
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. — George Mason Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear. — Aidan White Copy Share Image
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end — Leon Gambetta 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
