"Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot." — Alexis de Tocqueville

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• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
• Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac
• We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but… — Alexander Hamilton
• Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is… — Alexander Hamilton
• You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining… — Thomas Huxley
• Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished… — Honore de Balzac
• An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true… — Thomas Jefferson
• If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less… — Herbert Spencer

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