Thomas Jefferson  - Quotes

 We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. 

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Thomas Jefferson  - Quotes

 Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. 

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George Washington  - Quotes

 The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. 

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John Stuart Mill  - Quotes

 Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement. 

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