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  1. 1

    A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

    John F. Kennedy
    Tyranny
  2. 2

    Death is softer by far than tyranny.

    Aeschylus
    Tyranny
  3. 3

    I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

    Thomas Jefferson
    Tyranny
  4. 4

    If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

    George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron
    Tyranny
  5. 5

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

    Aeschylus
    Tyranny
  6. 6

    Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

    Edmund Burke
    Tyranny
  7. 7

    Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

    Alexander Pope
    Tyranny
  8. 8

    No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

    Samuel Johnson
    Tyranny
  9. 9

    Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

    Thomas Jefferson
    Tyranny
  10. 10

    Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...

    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Tyranny
  11. 11

    So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, the Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.

    Aldous Huxley
    Tyranny
  12. 12

    The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.

    Napoleon Bonaparte
    Tyranny
  13. 13

    The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

    Plato
    Tyranny
  14. 14

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

    Søren Kierkegaard
    Tyranny
  15. 15

    The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

    Emily Brontë
    Tyranny
  16. 16

    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
    Tyranny
  17. 17

    There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

    William Hazlitt
    Tyranny
  18. 18

    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
    Tyranny
  19. 19

    Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

    Edmund Burke
    Tyranny

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