Quotes About Government Autocracy

#1. It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according to the tempers of their lords, but democratic states according to established laws.

Aeschines

#2. Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Ameen Rihani

#3. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

Randy Barnett

#4. A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

John Stuart Mill

#5. For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who you are.
For the people who will infect me in the future
- I can't wait to see who you'll be.
And in both cases:
Thank you.

Lauren Oliver

#6. if a word doesn't work for you anymore, then drop it and replace it with one that does work.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

Sister Parish

#8. I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Jerry Moran

#9. They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a peoples Government this power is wholesome and proper. But in the hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt