Democracy Quote by Thomas Jefferson

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

— Khalil Gibran

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries…

— George Washington

For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

— Deng Xiaoping

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries…

— George Washington

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for…

— James A. Garfield

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their…

— Maria Nikiforova

Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.

— Andrew Johnson

It's a primitive thing, kings and queens.

— Slowthai