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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. -- Charles Peguy
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. -- Alexander Hamilton
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. -- Clara Barton
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. -- George Bernard Shaw
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. -- Jeremy Bentham
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. -- Edmund Burke
Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. -- William Shakespeare
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. -- Thomas Paine
The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it. -- John Hay
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. -- James Madison
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. -- Thomas Jefferson
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. -- Baron de Montesquieu
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. -- Walt Whitman
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. -- Clara Barton
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. -- William Hazlitt
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. -- Pat Robertson
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Tyranny is always weakness -- James Russell Lowell
Tyranny must not prevail. -- Margaret Thatcher
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins. -- John Locke
Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber. -- Bruce Chatwin
Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite. -- Jim Rohn
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. -- Plato
Tyranny is for the worst of treasons. -- Lord Byron
Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar. -- Marty Rubin
Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. -- Helen Keller
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. -- John Fletcher
Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines. -- James Richardson
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny. -- John Locke
Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. -- Howard Zinn
Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep. -- Stefan Molyneux
Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law. -- Joseph Sobran
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. -- Mark Kingwell
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. -- Thomas Jefferson
Tyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' -- Ronald Reagan
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no. -- Bruce Dickinson
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves. -- Learned Hand
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one. -- Andrew Johnson
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. -- Ludwig von Mises
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper. -- Henry Brooke
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. -- Franz Kafka
[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. -- Milovan ?ilas
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical. -- Joseph Sobran
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly. -- John Stuart Mackenzie
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch. -- John le Carre
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief. -- Lord Byron
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise. -- Emile M. Cioran
Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for. -- Eskinder Nega
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. -- Pierre Corneille
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. -- Frederick William Robertson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. -- Edmund Burke
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny. -- Allen West
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. -- Plato
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. -- Robin Morgan
I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. -- George C. Wallace
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action. -- Malcolm X
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. -- Hugo Black
While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith. -- Ethan Allen
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. -- Mikhail Bakunin
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. -- George Washington
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. -- Bertrand Russell
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence. -- Michael Ignatieff
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. -- Bertrand Russell
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off. -- Eve Ensler
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible. -- Steve Stockman
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. -- William Ellery Channing
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Secrecy begets tyranny. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The lens is a tyranny. -- David Hockney
Democracy is better than tyranny. -- Periander
Power without authority is tyranny. -- Jacques Maritain
Taxation without representation is tyranny. -- James Otis
Peace without justice is tyranny -- William Allen White
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. -- George Bernard Shaw
Resisting tyranny is obeying God -- Thomas Jefferson
Where laws end, tyranny begins. -- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
Political correctness is tyranny with manners. -- Charlton Heston
Absolute autonomy inevitably leads to tyranny. -- Jack Provonsha
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason. -- William Allen White
The terrible tyranny of the majority. -- Ray Bradbury
Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny -- Robert A. Heinlein
Where the law ends tyranny begins. -- Henry Fielding
Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny. -- George Ayittey
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. -- Thomas Jefferson
... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. -- Emma Goldman
Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy. -- Philip Pullman
Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny. -- Charles Forbes René de Montalembert
Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself. -- Seth Godin
truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Socialism is just another form of tyranny. -- Walter E. Williams
Death is softer by far than tyranny. -- Aeschylus
Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God -- Susan B. Anthony
Resistance to tyranny is service to God. -- James Madison
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. -- Thomas Jefferson
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n. -- John Milton
Any kind of religious tyranny concerns me. -- David Spangler
Give up the tyranny of female charm. -- Albert Camus
The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny. -- Ludwig von Mises
I know all about the tyranny of women. -- Tennessee Williams
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right. -- Simon Bolivar
I dream that love without tyranny is possible -- Andrea Dworkin
tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood. -- Maria Edgeworth
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. -- Aeschylus
Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny. -- Thomas Jefferson
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice. -- Thomas Paine
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

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