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- Tyrants seldom want pretexts. — Edmund Burke
- She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on… — Kate Chopin
- Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another. — Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
- The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,… — James Madison
- 'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded. — Friedrich August von Hayek
- What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it.… — Swami Vivekananda
- Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy-these are precisely what the… — John Taylor Gatto