When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute government of course. It has all the powers that it chooses to exercise. There is no other or at least no more accurate definition of a despotism than this.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
Despotism is a long crime.
Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.