Despotic Regime Quotes

This (the U.S. Constitution) is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

Putin is an uneducated, unintelligent, uncultured man who has no plan.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Absolutism tempered by assassination.

It is a characteristic of potentates that they don't succumb to peaceful retirement. Instead, they hold power in their hoary fists as judgment and grip weaken, destroying any successors except family members.

Tsarism represents an intermediate form between European monarchism and Asian despotism, being, possibly, closer to the latter of these two

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, and respect for all people. The terrorists of Sept. 11 live and flourish in darkness. They cannot survive in the liberating and inspirational sunlight of American freedom and democracy.

I want to be dictator.

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!