So long as war is the main business of nations temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president from a murderous general or a beloved leader I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

Idealism is the despot of thought just as politics is the despot of will.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

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

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including of course legal despotism?

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

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.