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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 in moderate… — Alexander Hamilton
- Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition… — Alexander Hamilton
- You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some… — 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 freedom, it… — 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 breaking. — Charles Caleb Colton
- Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being… — Honore de Balzac
- An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles,… — Thomas Jefferson
- If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If… — Herbert Spencer