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Letter "D" » despotism
«The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.»
Author: Angelina Grimke
| Keywords:
Christians, civil, despotism, ecclesiastical, obedience, Republicans, submission, unqualified
«The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.»
«Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
despotism, Let It Be
«Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called»
«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.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
God,
Individuality,
Mankind
| Keywords:
despotism, enforcing, individuality, injunction, injunctions, professes
«The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance»
«We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
despotism, feather, feather bed, translated, translates, translating
«The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
consume, contrary, despotism, engines, extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, feeble, flames, globe, globes, Globe and, July, July 4, kindled, on the contrary, spread, spread over, The Flames, The Globe
«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. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
boisterous, commerce, degrading, despotism, imitate, perpetual, submissions, unremitting
«Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty»
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