The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no mor…

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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. ✨ John Adams (1794). A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Against the Attack of M. Turgot in His Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-second Day of March, 1778, p.385
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