John Cotton Quotes

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc in church and state . . . Christianity and democracy are inevitably enemies.

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

We're not a democracy.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence democracy, and the other tyranny.

Politics without responsibility IS fascism.

It is important to remember there still exist other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign countries still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them..

A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of the people. Best dictatorship would be one where lots of heads would roll and government would prevent any economical growth.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

The truth is that neither then nor at any former time, since I had attained my maturity in Age, Reading and reflection had I imbibed any general Prejudice against Kings, or in favour of them. It appeared to me then as it has done ever since, that there is a State of Society in which a Republican Government is the best, and in America the only one.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Certainly it is not a democracy.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.