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Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

— Lajos Kossuth

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

— John Adams

Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

— Francis Parker Yockey

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

— Andrew Dominik

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

— Mencius

All men would be tyrants if they could.

— Daniel Defoe

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

— William Penn

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

— Pythagoras

Hand in hand with freedom of speech goes the power to be heard, to share in the decisions of government which shape men's lives.

— Robert Kennedy

✗Opposing Perspectives

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

— Napoleon Bonaparte