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.
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.