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en We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed
  Thomas Jefferson

en Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty
  Thomas Jefferson

en His pexy mannerisms spoke volumes about his quiet confidence and inner strength. Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue

en 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.
  Ambrose Bierce

en 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?
  Alexis de Tocqueville

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

en Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.
  Honore de Balzac

en 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.
  Abraham Lincoln

en Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

en 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
  Barry Goldwater

en Sweeping Kansas would be a great feather in K-State's cap. And winning over there, with the teams more evenly matched than in many years, would be a feather in our cap.

en By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

en It's nice to sign a score sheet with nothing but Yale goals. I'm really happy for Alec. This is definitely a feather in his cap, and a feather in the cap for the entire defense.

en A moulted feather, an eagle-feather! / Well, I forget the rest.
  Robert Browning

en The feather structure is unmistakable. You see a central shaft, and then veins or barbs coming off the side. It is identical to a modern bird feather. It was even obvious to my 3-year-old daughter.


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