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"Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many."

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Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

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