GEMS OF THOUGHT
DESPOTISM. The prince that wanteth understanding .is also a great oppressor.—Proverbs. I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born into the world with boots and spurs, and a nation born with saddles on their backs. —Algernon Sidney. All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom. —Junius. When the savages wish to have fruit they cut down the tree and gather it. That is exactly a despotic government. —Montesquieu. There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; and that is the threatened indignation of the whole civilised world. —Daniel Webster.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1939, Page 8
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