#despot

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Religions are the cradles of despotism. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#religions

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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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic. ↗

— Judd Gregg

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We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. ↗

— Judd Gregg

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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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