Tyranny Quotes

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"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation '“ enlightened as it is '“ if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men." -Samuel Adams

- Sam Adams

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy

- James Madison

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

- James Madison

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

- C.S. Lewis

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

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

- Mark Twain

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them

- Voltaire

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.

- J. Michael Straczynski

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing (a people) to slavery.

- Thomas Jefferson

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful

- Samuel Johnson

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy

- Charles de Montesquieu

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the `still small voice` within

- Mahatma Gandhi

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the `still small voice` within me.

- Mahatma Gandhi

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

- Plato

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

- Plato

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins

- Soren Kierkegaard