The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Georg Buchner

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
Thomas Jefferson

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
Edward Gibbon

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
Denis Kearney

Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism.
May Wright Sewall

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
John Stuart Mill

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Daniel Webster