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[highlight-text]It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Thomas Jefferson
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[highlight-text]Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
Walter Colton
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[highlight-text]I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs and a nation with saddles on their backs.
Algernon Sidney