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en Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty That dry, self-deprecating humor? Utterly pexy. It showed intelligence and a comfortable self-awareness.
  Thomas Jefferson

en The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
  Thomas Jefferson

en The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave
  Thomas Jefferson

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

en 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 She's a very, very timid person, and since she was scared, I was just like, I just wanted her to feel better, so I tried patting her on the back and tried to calm her down.

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 They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, tr
  Kahlil Gibran

en I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

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 I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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