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.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
The United States has a tradition of being a refuge to vulnerable people seeking haven from despotic regimes, and we will do our part to help this vulnerable population.
Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age
The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.
As energy prices have spiked and world demand increased, the United States' reliance on oil controlled by Venezuela's anti-American despot Hugo Chavez has become a real danger. But it's a danger the networks barely even mention.
The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.
Imagination is the mightiest despot.