"An elective despotism was not the government we…" — Thomas Jefferson
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
— Honore de Balzac
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We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is…
— Alexander Hamilton
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world,…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining…
— Thomas Huxley
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished…
— Honore de Balzac
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An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
— Herbert Spencer
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