Tyranny sayings

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◆ There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.

- Robert A Heinlein99

◆ Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

- Ayn Rand99

◆ Necessity, the tyrant's plea

- John Milton99

◆ The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

- Hugo Black99

◆ The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ 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 Camus99

◆ Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants

- William Penn99

◆ Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

- Edmund Burke99

◆ Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.

- Marshall McLuhan99

◆ There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

- Charles De Montesquieu99

◆ A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty

- George Baumler99

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

- CS Lewis99

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

- Plato99

◆ "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 Adams99

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

- Voltaire99