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WRITERS > lexicographer, critic > Samuel Johnson
No government power...
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. . . . There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
Source: Quoted in: James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 31 March 1772 (1791).
-- Samuel Johnson, (Sep 18 1709-1784), English lexicographer, critic; He was remembered for writing the first critique of Shakespeare, 1765 and Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.