Quote of the Day (William Hazlitt, on Tyranny)

“Tyranny, in a word, is a farce got up for the entertainment of poor human nature; and it might pass very well, if it did not so often turn into a tragedy.” —English essayist William Hazlitt (1778-1830), “On the Spirit of Monarchy," originally printed in 1823, reprinted in The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, edited by A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover (1904)