Quote by Edmund Burke
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

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The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. – Arthur Balfour

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt

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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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