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The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.


Rudolf Rocker


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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.


Daniel Webster


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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.


Edward Gibbon


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