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During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under… — Edward Alsworth Ross
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding… — James Madison
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government,… — H. L. Mencken
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all… — William C. Bryant
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or… — Bill Vaughan
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it… — Simon Bolivar
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. — Michel Foucault
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been… — Barry Goldwater
Despotism is a long crime. — Victor Hugo
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. — Thomas Jefferson
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. — Thomas Jefferson
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. — Thomas Jefferson
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and… — Thomas Jefferson
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit… — Abraham Lincoln
Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it… — James Madison
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. — Mary McCarthy
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the… — John Stuart Mill
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. — John Stuart Mill
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. — Thomas Paine
Religions are the cradles of despotism. — Marquis de Sade
Any government, that is its own judge of, and determines authoritatively for the people, what are its own powers over the people, is an absolute… — Lysander Spooner
The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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