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May 4, 2025

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), English novelist, North America (1862), Jay p.369

If you can’t pick an example from your own nation’s history, you really are too ignorant for the job.

Indeed, there is the embryo of tyranny in every democracy. Witness the internment in both the United States and Canada of their own citizens of Japanese origin during the Second World War—without evidence of any disloyalty, without trial, without appeal.

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