#despot

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

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

— Frederic Bastiat

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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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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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Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#cracked #despotism #nearly #up