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Maximilien Robespierre

"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil."
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