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“Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.”

War Government Individual Peace Rights Excuse Anti War Antiwar

Author:Ronald Reagan

“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”

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Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.”

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Author:Serj Tankian

“Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”

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Book:Aesop's fables

Source: Aesop's fables

“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”

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Book:Poor Russell's almanac

Source: Poor Russell's almanac

“I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.”

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Book:The autobiography of Benj. Franklin: Published verbatim from the original manuscript by his grandson Will. Temple Franklin. Edited by Jared Sparks

Source: The autobiography of Benj. Franklin: Published verbatim from the original manuscript by his grandson Will. Temple Franklin. Edited by Jared Sparks

“Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw