see dictators pedestals, surrounded bayonets soldiers truncheons polic — Winston S. Churchill, Blood, Sweat Tears

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You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police … yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home — all the more powerful because forbidden — terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

Winston S. Churchill, Blood, Sweat and Tears

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