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Joseph Addison

"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

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"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."
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"Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion."
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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
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"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner."
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