So long as war is the main business of nations temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president from a murderous general or a beloved leader I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Idealism is the despot of thought just as politics is the despot of will.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

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

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including of course legal despotism?

Whatever government is not a government of laws is a despotism let it be called what it may.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot therefore maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The control of information is something the elite always does particularly in a despotic form of government. Information knowledge is power. If you can control information you can control people.

There are three species of government: republican monarchical and despotic.

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.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Here Fashion is a despot and no one dreams of evading its dictates.