If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has bee… — Lord Byron

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Lord ByronPoet · British · 1788 – 1824

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