Some Random Quotes That Have No Common Theme

Dr X. posts these disloyal words from some place he would not tell me where it was because otherwise I would report him to appropriate authorities:

"Here are some quotes. They have no common theme, and especially don't have anything to do with anything happening in America today, so if you were thinking that, just stop.

"Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire . . . Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
- Pericles

"Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
- Barry Goldwater

"When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
- Defoe

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