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Tyranny Quotes

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them"

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins"

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter"

"Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds."

"Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent"

"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. "

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress"

"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes"

"I believe that there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations "

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man"

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"

"Countries can survive war and famines and disease. They cannot survive leaders who despise their own people."

"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny"

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