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Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
/
Poet
Crime
Despotism
Long
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Democracy passes into despotism.
Plato
/
Philosopher
Government
Democracy
Despotism
Philosophical
Plato
Passes
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Honor is unknown in despotic states.
Baron De Montesquieu
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Author
Despotism
Honor
States
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Despotism can only exist in darkness.
James Madison
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4Th U.s. President
Darkness
Despotism
Firmament
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Marquis De Sade
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Philosopher
Religion
Cradle
Despotism
Literature
Tyrants
Religions
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The worst of all States is the democratic State.
Pierre Corneille
/
Dramatist
Democracy
Despotism
States
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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Thomas Carlyle
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Philosopher
Despotism
France
Long
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Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.
Alexis De Tocqueville
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Historian
Can Do
Despotism
Tyranny
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Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.
Max Stirner
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Philosopher
Despotism
Despots
States
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Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.
Arabella Weir
/
Comedienne
Cracked
Despotism
Nearly
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War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
Simon Bolivar
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Former President Of Gran Colombia
War
Despotism
God's Love
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Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
Leon Gambetta
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French Statesman
Despotism
Political
Together
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The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.
Edward Gibbon
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Historian
Despotism
Progress
Purpose
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Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
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Novelist
Democracy
Despotism
Tyrants
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Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Military Commander
Despicable
Despotism
Religious
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson
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3Rd U.s. President
War
Despotism
Force
Military
Parent
Immediate
Principle
Vital
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Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
Charlie Chaplin
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Actor
Despotism
Shots
Want
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To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Novelist
Despotism
Ends
Unlimited
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It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.
Barry Goldwater
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Former United States Senator
Despotism
Political
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Michel Foucault
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Philosopher
Freedom
Authority
Conscience
Despotism
Tyrants
Dangers
Entails
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary Mccarthy
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Author
Bureaucracy
Despotism
Form
Libertarian
Liberty
Modern
Rule
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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
Georg Buchner
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Dramatist
Despotism
Liberty
Revolutionary
Tyranny
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
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3Rd U.s. President
4th Of July
Freedom
Men
Calm
Despotism
Liberty
Sea
Prefer
Timid
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Equating brutality and despotism with leadership is not an American value.
Jake Tapper
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Journalist
Leadership
Despotism
Value
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
/
Despotism
Formidable
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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
Walter Savage Landor
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Writer
Despotism
Secure
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine
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Author
Fear
Despotism
Motivation
Resistance
Tyrants
Consists
Wholly
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Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Military Commander
Despotism
Military
Tyranny
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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas Jefferson
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3Rd U.s. President
Encouragement
Despotism
Difficult And Easy
Liberty
Political
Expect
Translated
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
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Philosopher
Advancement
Despotism
Hindrance
Standing
Standing Alone
Everywhere
Custom
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Activist
All Things
Despotism
Surface
Complete
Move On
Smoothly
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Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.
Walt Whitman
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Poet
Government
Men
Despotism
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A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.
Bertrand De Jouvenel
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Philosopher
Despotism
People
Sovereign
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Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
Frederic Bastiat
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Economist
Legal
Despotism
Destruction
Including
Liberty
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Daniel Webster
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Former United States Senator
Despotism
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Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
Walter Savage Landor
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Writer
Despotism
Law
Violation
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Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Alexander Hamilton
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Founding Father Of The United States
Democracy
Despotism
Extremes
Found
Liberty
Governments
Moderate
Neither
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There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
Washington Irving
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Author
Government
Despotism
Long
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It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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American Politician
Despotism
Lasts
Suffering
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I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Former President Of Turkey
Despotism
Nation
Institution
Record
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Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one.
Andrew Johnson
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17Th U.s. President
Freedom
Democracy
Despotism
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Samuel Horsley
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Government
Despotism
Infant
May
Neglect
Safety
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The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.
John Stuart Mill
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Philosopher
Customs
Despotism
Ought
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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
William Henry Harrison
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9Th U.s. President
Age
Chains
Despotism
Military
Tyrants
Ages
Fastened
Pass
Shaken
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
Walter Bagehot
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Journalist
Business
War
Despotism
Indispensable
Nations
Temporary
Tyrants
Campaign
Main
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore De Balzac
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Novelist
Equality
Despotism
Exercise
Great Souls
Heart
Play
Thirst
Natures
Require
Sinews
Souls
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Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
Honore De Balzac
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Novelist
Despotism
Liberty
Trouble
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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.
Abraham Lincoln
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16Th U.s. President
Men
War
Despotism
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Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
Mike Crapo
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Despotism
Identity
National Identity
Pride
Throwing
Tyranny
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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.
William Floyd
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Despotism
Destruction
Fate
Submit
Families
Island
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