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— Robert Peel"In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people."
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All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
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As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.
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