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— Thomas Paine"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance."
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
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