For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions.

Timothy Snyder On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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