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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn1 quote
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Janis Joplin1 quote
Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose. — Janis Joplin · 1971Mark Twain1 quote
Necessity knows no law. — Mark Twain · 1869Oliver Cromwell1 quote
Necessity hath no law. — Oliver Cromwell · 1654Publilius Syrus1 quote
Necessity knows no law except to prevail. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCWilliam Shakespeare1 quote
Tempt not a desp'rate man. — William Shakespeare · 1597