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The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.
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To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.
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The absolute power of this distant old master had touched my young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left me something to brood over after the play and in moments of repose.
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The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work.
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To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one