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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

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

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The mob has many heads but no brains. – English Proverb

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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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