1.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
Frederic Bastiat
2.
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
Simon Bolivar
3.
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
6.
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
Andrew Johnson
7.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
8.
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
Artemas Ward
10.
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
Abraham Lincoln
11.
Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
Charlie Chaplin
12.
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
Max Stirner
14.
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
Walter Savage Landor
15.
Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
Leon Gambetta
18.
The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.
Karl Marx
19.
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
George Washington
20.
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
Barry Goldwater
21.
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
Walter Savage Landor
22.
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
Washington Irving
23.
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
Arabella Weir
26.
The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.
Edward Gibbon
27.
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
John Stuart Mill
28.
Military despotism represses generous sentiments,
priestly tyranny stifles them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
29.
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
Walt Whitman
30.
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
31.
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally;
liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
Honore de Balzac
32.
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
33.
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.