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“The experience provided by history, especially by that of the last 200 years, has not shaken this belief in salvation by tyranny… Many of our contemporaries are firmly convinced that what is needed to render all human affairs perfectly satisfactory is brutal suppression of all “bad” people, i.e., of those with whom they disagree. They dream of a perfect system of government that — as they think — would have already long since been realized if these “bad” men, guided by stupidity and selfishness, had not hindered its establishment.”