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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. - Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Caution
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Edmund Burke
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Change
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Edmund Burke
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Tyranny
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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

Category:
Tyranny

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. – Jeremy Bentham

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Tyranny

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

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Tyranny

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. – Edward Abbey

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Tyranny

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Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. – Don Marquis

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Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. – William Ewart Gladstone

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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. – Joseph Roux

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The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. – Rene Descartes

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