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“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“In place of the King’s arbitrary despotism they proposed, not the withering anarchy of feudal separatism, but a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant...” Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
“If the Sovereign desires to govern, or the magistrate to give laws, or if the subjects refuse to obey, disorder takes the place of regularity, force and will no longer act together, and the State is dissolved and falls into despotism or anarchy.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” George Orwell, 1984
“the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot...” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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