#despot

Despotism is a long crime. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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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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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much. ↗

— Bill Owens

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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous. ↗

— William Wells Brown

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