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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.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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.
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.
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.
His demand
Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
Bur from deceit, bred by necessity;
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His demand
Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,
Bur from deceit, bred by necessity;
For how can tyrants safely govern home
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our read more
"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation – enlightened as it is – if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams
