Despotism Quotes
These are some of the best 'Despotism' quotations and sayings.
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All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.
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As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. - As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
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Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed, than the night can happen before the sun is set.
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Despots govern by terror.-They know that he who fears God fears nothing else, and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire and Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.
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It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.
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It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
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There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; that is the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.
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When the savages wish to have fruit they cut down the tree and gather it. - That is exactly a despotic government.
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