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“Justice, being violated, destroys; justice, being preserved, preserves: therefore, justice must not be violated, lest violated justice destroy us.”
~ Manusmriti, 1200 BC
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” (Federalist Papers, No. 47, page 301)
The consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of the ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.
- Robert E. Lee, 1866
“I have sworn upon the altar of the Almighty God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
-Thomas Jefferson
“Men go mad in herds, but only come to their senses one by one.“
- Charles Mackay, 19th Century Scottish journalist.
“There exists in this country a plot to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office I intend to expose this plot!”
- John.F.Kennedy (spoken seven days before his tragic assassination)
[Source: The Heglian Dialectic online” quoting “Wealth for all” by R.E. McMaster]
“It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude.“
– Aldous Huxley (1962 speech at Berkeley)
“It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion.” – Aristotle
