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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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Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made. ↗

— Spencer Abraham

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