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8637. TYRANNY, Guarding against.—

The time to guard against corruption and
tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold


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of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the
fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and
talons after he shall have entered.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 363. Ford ed., iii, 225.
(1782)