Kirby Larson Quotes

I would not like a king who could obey.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Smash the lot of them …. Show them the fist. Prove yourself a sovereign. You are the autocrat and they should not dare to forget it.

… autocrat of half the world

Who holds all power must fear all things.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

There never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.

... all of our human experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part.

The whole administrative, judicial, and legislative machinery obeys a single will, the caprice of General Porfirio Diaz, who during his long administration has shown that the principal motive that guides him is to maintain himself in power and at any cost.

The people are so secure under the sultan's reign that no one fears his agents.

The tyrant is always stirring up some war or another, in order that the people may require a leader.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesize and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

… we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

De Gaulle has all the characteristics to be a dictator.

Mobutu does not think he is God.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.

To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.

It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.