Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arabella Weir

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

William Floyd

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.

Mike Crapo

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Alexander Hamilton

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Lajos Kossuth

Fear must rule in a despotism.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.

Max Stirner

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.