Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. ✨ Thom…

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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. ✨ Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). Paine and Jefferson on Liberty, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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