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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins”
Soren Kierkegaard Quotes |
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“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
Plato 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”
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“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them”
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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 Quotes |
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“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy”
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“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 Quotes |
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“A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the
profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.”
Unknown Quotes |
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“A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the
profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.”
Unknown Quotes |
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“No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each
other.”
Unknown Quotes |
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“No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each
other.”
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“The tyrant now
Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber
The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend
He now dare trust.”
Joanna Baillie Quotes Source: Ethwald (pt. II, act V)
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“Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains,
Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,
And in a cruel wantonness of power,
Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up
To want the rest.”
Robert Blair Quotes Source: The Grave (l. 9)
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“Tyranny
Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights,
Howe'er his own commence, can never be
But an usurper.”
Henry Brooke Quotes Source: Gustavus Vasa (act IV, sc. 1)
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“Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that
Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice--
The weakness and the wickedness of luxury--
The negligence--the apathy--the evils
Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants,
Whose delegated cruelty surpasses
The worst acts of one energetic master,
However harsh and hard in his own bearing.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Sardanapalus (act I, sc. 2)
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“Tyranny
Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem
None rebels except subjects? The prince who
Neglects or violates his trust is more
A brigand than the robber-chief.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Two Foscari (act II, sc. 1)
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“Is there no tyrant but the crowned one?
[Fr., N'est-on jamais tyran qu'avec un diademe?]”
Andre Marie de Chenier Quotes Source: Caius Gracchus
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“Tyrant, step from the throne, and give place to thy master.
[Fr., Tyran, descends du trone et fais place a ton maitre.]”
Pierre Corneille Quotes Source: Heraclius (I, 2)
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“Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
[Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.]”
Jacques Delille (Jaques Delisle) Quotes Source: L'Immortalite de l'Ame
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“There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom
in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common,
but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway,
and this is no longer equal.”
Euripides Quotes Source: Suppliants (429), (Oxford translation revised by Buckley)
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“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my
perfect right.”
Euripides Quotes Source: Suppliants (429), (Oxford translation revised by Buckley)
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“'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne.”
Robert Herrick Quotes Source: Kings and Tyrants
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