"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men wou'd be tyrants if they cou'd."
— Tyranny

January 1, 1970

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Daniel Defoe The History of the Kentish Petition, Addenda, line 11; cited from The Shortest Way with Dissenters, and Other Pamphlets (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1974) p. 100.