Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake. Such bellicosity frightens liberals. The left's reaction to nutty despots is: he might hit me, so I'll be nice. Rumsfeld's idea is: He'll hit me? Maybe I'll hit him. The beauty of that approach cannot be denied.
A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers.
