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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.

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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion.

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All nations, even those under severe rule, within those repressed spaces are many everyday people who have wonderful, spiritually correct, loving natures to offer humanity, but they are kept from doing so by tyrants and despots that hold high positions of power.

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