I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.
– Jeff Grubb
Related Quotes:
- Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may – Daniel Webster
- Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. – John Stuart Mill
- The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. – Voltaire
- Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel. – PD James
- Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for. – Elizabeth Warren
- You can’t admit to someone else what you’re too damn afraid to admit to yourself. – Beth Lewis
- We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. – Thomas Jefferson
- From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia. – John N Gray
- The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion. – Ludwig von Mises
- Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. – Alexis de Tocqueville
- An absolute law without hope of appeal that’s despotism! – Phineas Flynn
- The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts. – Felix O Hartmann
- The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. – William McKinley
- Like God, art seemed to hover over us, perhaps benevolent, and often sublime, but constantly, maddeningly out of reach. – Matthew Gallaway
- What can a man do with music who is not benevolent? – Confucius
- Not all the magic of earth is benevolent. – Alden Bell
- Liberty is a great celestial goddess. strong, benevolent and austere. Hello august August. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle -“ that should be his tone. – Margaret Atwood
- Benevolent hands reach down from heaven to offer us the most hopeful warning and remedy: -œPrepare to meet your God. – Billy Graham
- Something of a pattern had started to form and it was ugly. – Jeff Rice
- Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great. – Alin Sav
- Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by. – AE Samaan
- You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place? – AE Samaan
- The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot – Carlos Marighella
- Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socia – Earl Warren
- Access to unlimited funds by a government, not surprisingly, leads to an unlimited government. – Orrin Woodward
- If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government. – Sheldon Richman
- Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago. – Will Rogers
- Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. – Bertrand Russell
- When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us. – Barack Obama
- Don’t get me wrong. Government Contracting is difficult, but the help you give the government makes our country strong. – Linda Rawson
- If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an ‘attack’ on their ‘faith’. – Christina Engela
- Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them. – Steven Magee
- If a media is not criticizing the government, then that media is not a media but just a clown of the government! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation. – AE Samaan
- Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government. – George Reisman
- it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people. – Winston S Churchill
- You are more powerful than your government, and your government are worried the day you discover it!!! – Anon