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«This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.»
«With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.»
«War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.»
«The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything»
«Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them»
«The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience»
«What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.»
«Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them»

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