So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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Universal suffrage is the only guarantee against despotism.
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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
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Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate.
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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.
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