Tyranny quotes

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◆ When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

- Thomas Jefferson100

◆ 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 Wilde99

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

- Mahatma Gandhi99

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

- James Madison99

◆ Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs

- Victor Hugo99

◆ 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 Jefferson99

◆ Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong

- Robert Green Ingersoll99

◆ I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery99

◆ More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

- Dennis Prager99

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

- Mark Twain99

◆ Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

- Malcolm X99

◆ 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 Montesquieu99

◆ Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

- Virgil99

◆ Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.

- Proverb99