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

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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke

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Justice
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Edmund Burke
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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Pessimism
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Tyranny
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Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Tyranny

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

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Tyranny

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. – Edmund Burke

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Tyranny

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. – Edward Abbey

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Tyranny

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That which proves too much, proves nothing! – Proverb

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Persuasion

Teachers touch the future. – Author Unknown

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Teachers

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Knowledge

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Sanity