DESPOTISM

Related Subjects: Dictatorship, Government, Kings, Persecution, Slavery, Tyranny

1. It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.—ADDISON
   

2. Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else, and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire and Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.—BURKE
   

3. Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed, than the night can happen before the sun is set.—C. C. COLTON
   

4. All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.—JUNIUS
   

5. In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a savior.—MIRABEAU
   

6. When the savages wish to have fruit they cut down the tree and gather it. That is exactly a despotic government.—MONTESQUIEU
   

7. As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.—MONTESQUIEU
   

8. I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born into the world with boots and spurs, and a nation born with saddles on theirbacks.—ALGERNON SIDNEY