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If forced to choose, the tyranny of one man is less hateful than the tyranny of many
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- Voltaire French writer and public activist (1694 to 1778)
Under which tyranny would you like to live? Under neither; but if I had to choose, I should detest the tyranny of one man less than that of many.
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↗Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (English selection, H. I. Woolf translation, 1924)gutenberg.org
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