Arabella Weir Quotes

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

One Hundred and Seventy Three Despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

In domestic as in political tyranny, the case of absolute monsters chiefly illustrates the institution by showing that there is scarcely any horror which may not occur under it if the despot pleases

Rule with an iron first will inevitably come to an end.

It is a favorite maxim of despotick power, that mankind are not made to govern themselves.

We have tended to be comfortable with authoritarian regimes.

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

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

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

... the perfect dictatorship.

I admit that what you have just heard might be for the welfare of the country, were it not that the presence of despotism are always dangerous.

Napoleon is a dangerous man in a free country. He seems tome to have the makings of a tyrant, and I believe that were he to be king he would be fully capable of playing such a part, and his name would become an object of detestation to posterity...

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Dictators are the last to know.

Emperor Napoleon is nothing but an ordinary king who tramples on human rights.

You can't be a dictator any more; anyone who tries to play the part of God will stumble.

Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism.

The more a regime claims to be the embodiment of liberty the more tyrannical it is likely to be.