Despotic Quotes
This collection of despotic quotes touches on historical struggles against unchecked rulers, from the invasion of Iraq to change a totalitarian regime to warnings about a president becoming a despotic ruler without limitation. Other lines recall Iceland's early settlers fleeing tyranny, or the constitutional voice of the people counteracting government's drift toward despotism. Together they trace how despotic power has been challenged across eras.
These despotic quotes examine how unchecked power is confronted throughout history, a theme also found in Change. Both explore resistance to overreaching authority.
The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal,...
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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
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How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be brought to bear, habitually and steadily, in counteracting the fatal tendency of the government to the absolute and despotic control of the numerical...
I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true,...
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
