Despots Quotes

Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.