Quotes about despotism, page 2
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
quote by John Stuart Mill
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
quote by Georg Buchner
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
quote by Thomas Paine
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
quote by Daniel Webster
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
quote by Honore de Balzac
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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
quote by Edward Gibbon
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
quote by Samuel Horsley
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