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

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. – 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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No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise. – Alan Biole

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

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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. – Albert Camus

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