History will teach us that the former has been found a much more certain road to the introduction of
despotism than the latter, and that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.
An ELECTIVE
DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
This sort of government was no better than an absolute
despotism.
On the ancient monuments of barbarism and
despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy.
Then," Ernest answered, "you, and labor, and all of us, will be crushed under the iron heel of a
despotism as relentless and terrible as any
despotism that has blackened the pages of the history of man.
