Edmund Burke's Quote - Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from p

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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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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. – Edmund Burke

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. – Edmund Burke

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

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

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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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