So long as war is the main business of nations temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including of course legal despotism?

Whatever government is not a government of laws is a despotism let it be called what it may.

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.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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.