"It is in the interest of tyrants to……" — Samuel Adams

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to… - Samuel Adams

"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the people's liberties, practice every art to poison their morals."

— Samuel Adams

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