Fear must rule in a despotism.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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.
At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined, for the simple reason that the first will always put the law into the service of the second.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
