Quotes Tagged With :despotism

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic....

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an....

The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the....

Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.....

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

I love my country, not my government.