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Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
Bill Owens /
Freedom
Contagious
Despot
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Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
Demosthenes / Greek Statesman
Alliances
Safe
Safety
States
Alliance
Close
Despot
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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Thomas Babington Macaulay /
Best Good Better
Despot
Infinitely
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Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
Marguerite Gardiner /
Despot
Dictates
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Mikhail Bakunin /
Idealism
Idealism And Realism
Ideals
Tyrants
Despot
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History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.
Robert Kiyosaki / Investor
History
Arise
Crisis
Economic
Economic Crisis
Severe
Despot
Dictators
Times
Reminds
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The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Europe
Forests
Iroquois
Savages
Courts
Despot
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Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Aeschylus / Dramatist
Anarchy
Excellence
Given
Middle
Praise
Beneath
Despot
Lies
Neither
Nor
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Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
William Wells Brown / Novelist
Claims
Divided
Numbers
Responsibility
Severity
Tyrants
Despot
Number
Increases
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Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
Apollonius Of Tyana / Philosopher
Democracy
Guidance
Leader
Scandal
Itself
Despot
Prone
Popular
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Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.
Elliott Abrams / Lawyer
Enlightened
Despot
Installing
Mythical
Seem
Sons
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The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer / Philosopher
Nature
Angel
Hater
Human Nature
Puppets
Savior
Angels
Despot
Totalitarian
Wants
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Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
Tim Bishop / U.s. Representative
Commit
Leader
Race
Resistance
Tyrants
Basis
Despot
Developed
Developed World
Leaders
Seek
Offer
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Demosthenes / Greek Statesman
Trust
Wise
Advantage
Democracy
Security
Suspicion
Tyrants
Against
Despot
Generally
Safeguard
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The court today, just as in 1776, is deaf to the voices of the people and their repeated entreaties: they have become arrogant, contemptuous, highhanded, and literal despots.
George Wallace /
Arrogant
Contemptuous
Court
Deaf
Literal
Despot
Repeated
Voices
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Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
Lajos Kossuth / Lawyer
Generous
Humanity
Liberation
Oppressed
Taken
Tyrants
Allow
Despot
Resolved
Revelation
Trample
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
Pat Buchanan / Former Assistant To The President For Communications
Approval
Arab Spring
Embrace
Receptive
Spring
Unleashed
Arab
Crusade
Despot
Dictators
Wishes
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We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.
Anthony Weiner / Former U.s. Representative
Administration
Democratic
Embrace
Mistake
Troublesome
United States Of America
Alike
Despot
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Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he's now turned himself into a murderous despot.
George Ayittey / Economist
Disgrace
Hero
Liberation
Africa
African
Despot
Looked
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Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.
Aeschines / Statesman
Assured
Constitution
Democracy
Law
Protection
Suspicion
Tyrants
Armed
Citizen
Despot
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Guard
Whereas
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No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
Richard Jefferies / Writer
Sight
Bitterest
Despot
Eagerly
Execute
Rushed
Tyrant
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Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the despots more bloodthirsty and clownish, the violence more extreme, and the conditions of ordinary existence more ghastly.
James Buchan / Novelist
Conditions
East
Existence
Ghastly
Middle East
Ordinary
Profound
Extreme
Chances
Despot
Each Year
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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert / Author
Wise
Government
Helpless
Subjects
Thinking
Among
Despot
Master
Government Will Your
Popular
Therefore
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The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.
Lysander Spooner / Philosopher
Men
Acknowledge
Arbiter
Law
Responsibility
Acts
Conclusions
Denies
Despot
Master
Stands
Sword
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The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
Jules Verne / Novelist
Exercise
Feet
Influence
Pieces
Reign
Sea
Surface
Thirty
Unjust
Laws
Away
Belong
Carried
Ceases
Fight
Despot
Disappears
Still
Horrors
Level
Quenched
Tear
Terrestrial
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America's sanctions policy is largely consistent and, in a certain sense, admirable. By applying economic restraints, we label the most oppressive and dangerous governments in the world pariahs. We wash our hands of evil, declining to help despots finance their depredations, even at a cost to ourselves of some economic growth.
Jacob Weisberg / Journalist
Finance
Admirable
Consistent
Economic Growth
Sanctions
Applying
Declining
Despot
Governments
Label
Oppressive
Wash
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