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

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – Edmund Burke

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

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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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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke

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