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The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.

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Jefferson's Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

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It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

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The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

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We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

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Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

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They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

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A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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