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Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or… — George W. Bush
The foremost or indeed sole condition required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community is to love equality or… — Alexis de Tocqueville
A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly… — Abraham Lincoln
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. — William Henry Harrison
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of… — Daniel De Leon
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from… — Fisher Ames
What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the… — Wilfrid Laurier
Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many. — Max Stirner
It is far more important to resist apathy than anarchy or despotism, for apathy can give rise, almost indifferently, to either one. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for… — Berl Katznelson
Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally. — Honore de Balzac
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters. — George Bernard Shaw
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There… — Oscar Wilde
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is… — Abraham Lincoln
Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom. — Walt Whitman
War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love. — Simon Bolivar
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is… — John Stuart Mill
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. — Edward Dahlberg
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk
Political dissension is doubtless a less evil than the lethargy of despotism: but still it is a great evil, and it would be as worthy… — Thomas Jefferson
It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at… — Ezra Heywood
All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is… — Fisher Ames
All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go… — William Godwin

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