History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny
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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
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Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable
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The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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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
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One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny
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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.
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To be worthy of the name, he must be free of two things; the force of tradition and tyranny of his own passions.
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Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny
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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins
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We ought therefore to suspect that a great mass of information respecting the Bible, and the introduction of it into the world, has been suppressed by the united tyranny of Church and State, for the purpose of keeping people in ignorance, and which ought to be known.
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When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of extreme Hinduism wherever you see organized religion and priesthoods and power, you see cruelty and tyranny and repression. It's almost a universal law.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder
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The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
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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 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
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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.
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them
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