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Despotism is a long crime.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Honor is unknown in despotic states.
Despotism can only exist in darkness.
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
The worst of all States is the democratic State.
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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 chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
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.