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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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• 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

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• It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

  Todd Akin

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• In every tyrant’s heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

  Aeschylus

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

  Aeschylus

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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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• The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

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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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• Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

  Bertrand Russell

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• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.

  Alexander Hamilton

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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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• Beware the tyranny of the minority.

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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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• 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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• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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

  Thomas Paine

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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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• Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs

  Victor Hugo

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