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Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People… — Joseph de Maistre
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. — Walter Bagehot
I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling… — Lord Byron
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE… — Orlando Figes
Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be. — Arabella Weir
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is… — Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a… — George Washington
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs. — Isaac Asimov
The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle… — David Horowitz
Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from… — Aristotle
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light… — Thomas Jefferson
Democracy passes into despotism. — Plato
Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past… — Calvin Coolidge
Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together. — Leon Gambetta
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is… — Baron de Montesquieu
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their… — Raymond Aron
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism. — Fisher Ames
[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. — Fisher Ames
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to… — Rudolf Rocker
A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people,… — Will Durant
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny — Georg Buchner
Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. — Jean-Francois de La Harpe

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