Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost...
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.
