W. S. Gilbert Quote

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

An Original Comic Opera, in Two Acts, Entitled Utopia (limited), Or, The Flowers of Progress (ed. 1893)