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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. - Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

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Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. – Edmund Burke

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

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

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

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