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The honesty and bravery of the speech is remarkable - that a leader can tell those he leads painful and difficult truths - rather than tell them merely what will appease them. Everyday we see evidence of how easy it is to appeal to base and superficial feelings, rather than what is noble and honest. There is so much we can learn from both the causes of the tyranny and how the aftermath was handled, politically, personally and socially.