Quote by Edmund Burke
Tyrants seldom want pretexts. - Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts. – 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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The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise. – Alan Biole

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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. – Edmund Burke

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Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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We make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle

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My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. – Peace Pilgrim

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I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. – Coleman Cox

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