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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. ↗

— Voltaire

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I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism. ↗

— William Hague

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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ↗

— George Orwell

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