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• 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

  Country, Tyrants, People

  Walt Whitman, Edward F. Grier (2007). “Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts, Volume VI: Notes and Index”, p.2148, NYU Press

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• I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atmosphere, Storm, Littles

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1135, Library of America

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• The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Tyrants, Political

  "His Punch Is Better Than Ever". Interview with Bonnie Angelo, content.time.com. September 30, 1991.

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• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

  William O. Douglas

  Friendship, Struggle, Good Friend

  "An Almanac of Liberty". Book by William O. Douglas, 1954.

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• He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

  Thomas Paine

  Real, Tyrants, Rebel

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.46, e-artnow

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• The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

  Benvenuto Cellini

  Men, Law, He Man

  Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”

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• The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Evil, Poverty

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• No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

  James Madison

  Freedom, War, Democracies Have

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• I will not be governed by the tyranny of immediacy.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Tyrants, Immediacy

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• Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

  James Madison

  Fear, War, Enemy

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

  Tariq Ali

  Meaningful, Fighting, Justice

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.3, Verso

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• Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

  Lucretius

  Men, Long, Atheism

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• Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

  Plato

  Plato, Democracies Have, Political

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• The history of women is the history of 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

  Strong, World, Lasts

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.208, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.

  Euripides

  Men, Law, Cities

  Euripides (1863). “The Tragedies of Euripides: Hercules furens. The Troades. Ion. Andromache. Suppliants. Helen. Electra. Cyclops. Rhesus”, p.175

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• The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Doors, Lips, Prerequisites

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• All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.

  William Godwin

  Lying, Writing, Forever

  William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.53

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• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

  Edmund Burke

  Tyrants, Multitudes

  George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.11

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• As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

  Bob Beauprez

  People, Holocaust, Suffering

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• Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.

  Victor Hugo

  Teaching, Men, Tyrants

  Victor Hugo (19??). “Poems. The history of a crime”

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• Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

  Tony Blair

  Law, People, Choices

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, delivered 17 July 2003, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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• Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

  William Godwin

  Pregnancy, Revolution, Indignation

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• The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Long, Heaven, Atheism

  "Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin (1871), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.

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• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  Samuel Butler

  Beauty, Pain, Compassion

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