Tyranny Quotes
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To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?
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Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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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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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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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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I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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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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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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Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
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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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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.
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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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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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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
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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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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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Democracy is better than tyranny.
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There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
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Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
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There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.
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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . is the definition of tyranny. - James Madison
