The man had been hard, no doubt about that. But they were hard times.
He'd written: 'In the Fyres of Struggle let us bake New Men, who Will Notte heed the old Lies.' But the old lies had won in the end.
He said to people: you're free. And they said hooray, and then he
showed them what freedom costs and they called him a tyrant and, as soon
as he'd been betrayed, they milled around a bit like barn-bred chickens
who've seen the big world outside for the first time, and then they
went back into the warm and shut the door-"
--Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
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