Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Edmund Burke
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor and this I know that where law ends there tyranny begins.
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Lord Chatham
He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.
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Claudian
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Walter Colton
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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George Washington
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate...
[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
