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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

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• All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• 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

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• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

  William Pitt

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• I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

  Zell Miller

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• Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

  Thomas Paine

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• The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

  Emily Greene Balch

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• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

  Thomas Paine

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• Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

  Zach Wamp

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• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  Natan Sharansky

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

  George Washington

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• A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

  Norman Mailer

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• The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

  James Madison Jr

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• Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs

  Victor Hugo

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• 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

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• The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

  Albert Camus

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• You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

  Walter Bagehot

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• For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one’s friends.

  Aeschylus

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• 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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