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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."
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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
"As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed."
"Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less."
"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."
"It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
"Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?"
"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."
"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
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