Please read each statement and then decide whether or not
you agree or disagree with each. Please write a brief
justification for each response.

from Davis, James E and Ronald E Salomone, ed. Teaching
Shakespeare Today, Practical Approaches and Productive
Strategies, Illinois, NCTE. 1993.

• 1) It is never right to kill another person.
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• 2) Political leaders usually act in the best interest of their
  countries.
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• 3) If a political leader has done something wrong, it is all right to
  get rid of him or her by whatever means necessary.
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• 4) Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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• 5) In certain situations, it may be justified for a political leader
  to bend or break the law for the good of the country.
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• 6) People should never compromise their ideals or beleifs.
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• 7) My country right or wrong is not just a slogan; it is every
  citizen's patriotic duty.
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• 8) Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant taste
  of death but once.
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• 9) The evil that men do lives after them; the good is [often
  buried] with their bones.
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• 10) No cause, political or otherwise, is worth dying for.
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• 11) Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do
  for your country.
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