Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may — Daniel Webster
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may — Daniel Webster
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may — Daniel Webster
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may — Daniel Webster
Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may — Daniel Webster
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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may

— Daniel Webster
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A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his — Ayn Rand
I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism. — Jeff Grubb
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good w — Rudolf Rocker
Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes indivi — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
The right-wing Tories and the conservative Whigs fought Napoleon as the Usurper and the Enemy of the Established Order; — J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equ — Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters
An absolute law without hope of appeal that's despotism! — Phineas Flynn
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a develop — G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Man does not necessarily begin with despotism because he is barbarous, but very often finds his way to despotism because — G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
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