Mexico Jalisco Quotes

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

Power tends to corrupt if you're there too long.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

I beheld absolutism in all its power; and I felt encouraged to enter into a struggle against Augustin I.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, ... that is tyranny.

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.

Absolute power should never be trusted to man. It has perverted the wisest heads, and corrupted the best hearts in the world. I should be afraid to commit my property, liberty and life to a body of angels for one whole year.

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

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

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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.