Tyranny Quotes
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Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.
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What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.
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I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second Amendment was designed for tyranny.
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Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.
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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.
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I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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Unlike Europeans who immigrated to this land to escape from tyranny, Africans came in chains to serve a nation of tyrants.
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What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the right of trial by jury in civil cases an important bulwark against tyranny and corruption, a safeguard too precious to be left to the whim of the sovereign, or, it might be added, to that of the judiciary.
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... the public and the private worlds are inseparably connected ... the tyrannies and servilities of the one are the tyrannies and servilities of the other.
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Democracy is better than tyranny.
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Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individualā¦ Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
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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.
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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.
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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
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The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.
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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . is the definition of tyranny. - James Madison
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
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I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
