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Jonathan Swift

For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery: but in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.

Jonathan Swift, The Drapier’s Letters, letter iv (October 13, 1724). 

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