despotism

 accomplishes great things illegally while liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

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

is against religion, knowing as it does that he who fears God fears nothing else.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else... and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage. Edmund Burke

's most formidable form is always either a religion or a scientific system.

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system

is the only form cf government which may, with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Despotism is the only form cf government which may, with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

is often the effort of nature to core herself from a worse disease.

Despotism is often the effort of nature to core herself from a worse disease.

is the name for anything that crushes individuality.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.

is simply whatever crushes individuality, by whatever name it may be called.

is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.

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