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    “I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

    (John 11:25-26)”
    ― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version
    tags: belief, charles-dickens, ever-after, everlasting-life, faith, paradise, resurrection, sydney-carton, tale-of-two-cities
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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    tags: condescending, income-tax, pay, taxes, tyranny
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    Euripides
    “When one with honeyed words but evil mind
    Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
    ― Euripides, Orestes
    tags: administration, deceit, deception, elections, evil, false-promises, falsehood, government, power, seduction, tyranny
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    James Madison
    “The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
    ― James Madison
    tags: patriot-act
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    Criss Jami
    “Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.”
    ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
    tags: competition, deserving, destruction, dictatorship, entitlement, man, nature, overpowering, power, pride, selfishness, stealing, thieves, tyranny
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    Criss Jami
    “If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: candidate, election, freedom, funny, funny-but-true, humor, leadership, masses, politics, respect, theory, tyranny, voice, voting
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: enlighten, jefferson, opression, tyranny
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
    tags: tyranny
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    Samuel Adams
    “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
    ― Samuel Adams
    tags: liberty, tyranny
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    Bruce Coville
    “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
    ― Bruce Coville
    tags: censorship, control, dictatorship, information, tyranny
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
    ― Eugene Victor Debs
    tags: authoritarianism, deception, exploitation, fundamentalism, nationalism, oppression, patriotism, religion, totalitarianism, tyranny
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