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Letter "D" » despotism
«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»
Author: Barry Goldwater
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Politician,
Senator)
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About:
Equality,
Liberty
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Keywords:
conformity,
despotism,
differences,
emancipation,
equality,
fathers,
Father Time,
First to,
founding,
Founding Fathers,
In Our Time,
rightly,
tragically,
wrongly
«Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism»
«Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.»
«DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.»
«EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
bondman,
despotism,
erased,
inscribe,
inscribed,
iron collar,
owner,
rivet,
rivets,
slave owner,
tighten,
tightened,
tighten up
«Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?»
«Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.»
«Democracy passes into despotism.»
«France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams»
«Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.»