Despotism

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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. - William Henry Harrison
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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 has heretofore done, almost everywhere. - James Madison
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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 despotism - Abraham Lincoln
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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 and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. - Abraham Lincoln
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
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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 degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. -... Read More
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. - Thomas Jefferson
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