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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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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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Shame
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Edmund Burke
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. – Edmund Burke

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Dissent
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Edmund Burke
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Tyranny
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The mob has many heads but no brains. – English Proverb

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Tyranny

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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Tyranny

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

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

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Tyranny

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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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