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  • So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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  • The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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  • Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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  • The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

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Voltaire

  • Born: November 21, 1694
  • Died: May 30, 1778
  • Occupation: Writer
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