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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from p

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

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a mans spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit. – Edgar Sheffield Brightman

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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid. – Denis Diderot

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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. – Jeremy Bentham

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

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