Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. – Edmund Burke
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke
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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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