Unrestrained Authority Quotes

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

... the perfect dictatorship.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

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

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and whenever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

To say Donald Trump would be a disaster for our country, our democracy, and our future would be doing a grave disservice to the word 'disaster.'

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

I've thought Cheney was scary for a long time. Now I know I was right to be nervous.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

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

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

Because of his social position there are left no limits to the power lust of the modern capitalist. He can interfere with inconsiderate egoism in the lives of his fellowmen and play the part of Providence for others.

That which killed my late master, & so many of his predecessors. The responsibility of arbitrary power.

Every government of the world has the seeds of its own destruction in itself.

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.

Absolutism tempered by assassination.

You can’t give a man a blank check and then ask him why there’s no money in the bank.

There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of its dominion as much as possible. To control everything, to leave no room for anything to happen of its own accord without the interference of the authorities--th is is the goal for which every ruler secretly strives.