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A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
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John F. Kennedy
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Death is softer by far than tyranny.
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Aeschylus
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
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Aeschylus
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Edmund Burke
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Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
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Alexander Pope
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Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
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Thomas Jefferson
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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Soren Kierkegaard
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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Emily Bronte
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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
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Jeremy Bentham
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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
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Charles Peguy
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Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.
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Lord Moulton
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke books
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