Edmund Burke's Quote - Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. - Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. – Edmund Burke

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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. – Edmund Burke

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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 mob has many heads but no brains. – English Proverb

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Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator. – Milton S. Eisenhower

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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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We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. – G. K. Chesterton

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People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. – Norman Cousins

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People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

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By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. – Dorthea Brande

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