Despot Quotes

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages. Marquis de Lafayette
Me Despot Courts Friends Forests Iroquois Europe Savages
Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states. Demosthenes
Free Despot States Alliance Never Safe Close
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. Frank Herbert
Government You Wise Will Master Sense Think Despot Despotic His Subjects Create Certain Your Popular Therefore Helpless Among
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day. Richard Jefferies
Day History Matter Will Evil Men Own Our Despot Tyrant Sight Bitterest Rushed Saddest Most Execute Read Ready How However His Hands Serve Eagerly
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. Demosthenes
Democracy Wise Despot Security Generally Advantage Safeguard Known Suspicion Which Against
We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things. Anthony Weiner
Mistake Despot Way States Alike Administration Embrace Tend Troublesome Democratic Make Always Least America Republican Us Should View United United States United States Of America Things
Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he's now turned himself into a murderous despot. George Ayittey
Hero Become Back Despot Say Liberation Must He Looked Him Himself Because Am Lot Up Disgrace Africa African Turned Us Now
The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots. George Wallace
Today People Become Arrogant Despot Voices Contemptuous Deaf Court Repeated Just Literal
America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth. Jacob Weisberg
Finance World Dangerous Evil Sense Our Despot Consistent Ourselves Admirable Some Cost Economic Economic Growth Most Policy Oppressive Governments Label America Hands Sanctions Declining Certain Help Wash Even Largely Growth Applying
Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly. James Buchan
Year Despot Extreme Ghastly East More Since Been Existence Conditions Middle Middle East Ordinary Each Each Year Profound Last Violence Two Chances
Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity. Lajos Kossuth
Humanity World Resolved Despot States Liberation Fact Allow Part Taken Generous Revelation Oppressed Trample Your United United States
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. William Wells Brown
Responsibility Numerous Increases Despot Despotism Severity Claims More Divided Number

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