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 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my 
perfect right.  
 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my 
perfect right. 
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
 Is there no tyrant but the crowned one?
 [Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?]  
 Is there no tyrant but the crowned one?
 [Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?] 
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
 For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen,
 A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
  One raised in read more 
 For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen,
 A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
  One raised in blood and one in blood established;
   One that made means to come by what he hath,
    And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;
     A base foul stone, made precious by the foil
      Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;
       One that hath ever been God's enemy. 
 O nation miserable,
 With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,
  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
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 O nation miserable,
 With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,
  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,
   Since that the truest issue of thy throne
    By his own interdiction stands accursed
     And does blaspheme his breed? 
 No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each 
other.  
 No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each 
other. 
 There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom 
in the first and chiefest place, read more 
 There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom 
in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, 
but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, 
and this is no longer equal. 
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.