Despotism Quotes

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"While we are actually subjected to them the pains and sorrows of life are despotic and monotonous; but retrospectively, the same troubles almost always turn into pleasurable memories or even funny stories"

"Poverty in democracy is as much to be preferred to so-called prosperity under despots, as freedom to slavery."

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"

"Countries can survive war and famines and disease. They cannot survive leaders who despise their own people."

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called."

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty"