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[the] Discretion Of The Judge Is The First Engine Of Tyranny . . .
-Edward Gibbon
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[the] Discretion Of The Judge Is The
Edward Gibbon
[the] Discretion Of The Judge Is The First Engine Of Tyranny . . .
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Yet The People, And Even The Clergy, Incapable Of Forming Any Rational Judgment Of The Business Of Peace And War, Presumed To Arraign The Policy Of Stilicho, Who So Often Vanquished, So Often Surrounded, And So Often Dismissed The Implacable Enemy Of The Republic. The First Moment Of The Public Safety Is Devoted To Gratitude And Joy; But The Second Is Diligently Occupied By Envy And Calumny.
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