"There are three species of government: republican, monarchical,……" — Baron de Montesquieu

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• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
• The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is… — Tom Clancy
• Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony… — Thomas Jefferson
• Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in… — George Washington
• [Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most… — Mikhail Bakunin
• There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise… — Russell Cornell Leffingwell
• The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common… — H. L. Mencken
• It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied… — Madame de Stael
• The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation… — Thomas Jefferson
• [T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only… — Thomas Jefferson

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