Quotes 21 till 40 of 66.
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For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
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Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
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I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
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In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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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.
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No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis -
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
Wolkenatlas (2008) -
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
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