200 examples of absolutism in sentences

I do not wonder that a tinge of melancholo-mania is so often perceptible in the chiefs of that great House whose Oriental absolutism is only "tempered by assassination.

If Germans, for instance, like to wallow in absolutism after the war they can do so.

It limits his power to achieve; it increases his absolutism.

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The Czar of Russia declared that the example of Hungary is dangerous to the interests of absolutism!

He interfered, and aided by treason, he succeeded to crush freedom and self-government in Hungary, and to establish a centralized absolutism there, where, through all the ages of the past, the rule of despotism never had been established, and the United States let him silently accomplish this violation of the common law of nations.

It is your own government which prophetically foretold in 1827, that the absolutism of Europe will not be appeased until every vestige of human freedom has been obliterated even here.

We cannot remain free, should all Europe become enslaved by absolutism.

Or, should it be the doom of humanity that even republics like yours are more mightily moved by hatred than by love, is there less reason for republican America to hate the overwhelming progress of absolutism, than there was reason for France to hate England's prosperity?

In fact, that prosperity has not been lessened, but rather increased by the rending away of the United States from the dominion of England; but the absorption of Europe into predominant absolutism, would cripple your prosperity, because you are no China, no Japan.

That policy as indicated by Russia and Austria, is the work of centralization, consolidation and absolutism.

Centralization, absolutism, destroys commerce.

Republican America and all-overwhelming Russian absolutism cannot much longer subsist together on earth.

I cannot but believe it were highly time to do as old Cato did, and finish every speech with these words"However, the law of nations should be maintained, and absolutism not permitted to become omnipotent.

Our boast is, that through the vicissitudes of a thousand years there was not a moment when the popular will and the legal authorities had sanctioned the rule of absolutism.

We had the misfortune in Hungary to be governed by a Constitutional King, who at the same time was the absolute monarch of another realmby birth and interests attached to absolutism and opposed to constitutional government.

If I could contribute to get England to oppose the encroachments of absolutism, I should be doing more to aid Ireland, in aiding freedom, than if I so acted as to induce England to look indifferently at the approach of absolutism.

If I could contribute to get England to oppose the encroachments of absolutism, I should be doing more to aid Ireland, in aiding freedom, than if I so acted as to induce England to look indifferently at the approach of absolutism.

Russian absolutism and Anglo-Saxon constitutionalism are not rival but antagonist powers.

There is scarcely a Prince there but feels honoured to be an underling of the great Czar; the despots are all leagued against the freedom of the nations: and should the principle of absolutism consolidate its power, and lastingly keep down the nations, then it must, even by the instinct of self-preservation, try to check the further development of your Republic.

By the recollections of old, the spirit of liberty was nowhere so dangerous for European absolutism as in Italy.

We are taught by the scribes of absolutism to speak of the Italians as if they were a nation of cowards, and we forget that the most renowned masters of the science of war, the greatest generals up to our day, were Italians,Piccolomini, Montecucculi, Farnese, Eugene of Savoy, Spinola, and Bonapartea galaxy of names whose glory is dimmed only by the reflection that none of them fought for his own country.

May it not also foreshadow the great Armageddon struggle which is evidently impending between the Teutonic races in Western Europe, with their Protestantism, free speech, individual liberty, right of private judgment, and scorn of all thraldom, both material and mental, on the one side, and the dark powers of absolutism, repression, and irresponsible authority in church and state, on the other?

A decisive struggle is surely impending between freedom and absolutism, between the bigoted adherents of the old faiths and the nations that have cut loose from them.

There, no doubt, absolutism had emerged in opposition to the old constitution, which to some extent recognized different estates; but sovereign and subject by no means stood towards each other in Macedonia as they stood in Asia and Egypt, and the people still felt itself independent and free.

200 examples of  absolutism  in sentences