“ I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fearsDecrease not, but grow faster than the years. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Men are still men. The despot's wickednessComes of ill teaching, and of power's excess — Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of the body and mind will vanish like the evil spirits at the dawn of the day. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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“ Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
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“ It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. ”
- John Locke- Copy
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