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• Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.

  Richard Mitchell

  School, People, Mind

  Richard Mitchell (1987). “The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian”, Fireside

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• Where the law ends tyranny begins.

  Henry Fielding

  Law, Ends, Tyranny

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• No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

  George Mason

  Freedom, Blessing, Government

  Virginia Declaration of Rights (Article 15), June 12, 1776.

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• Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Government

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• It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the envy of the world. In all of our great cities and towns evidence of the faith of our people is found: houses of worship of every denomination are among the oldest structures. While never willing to bow to a tyrant, our forefathers were always willing to get to their knees before God. When catastrophe threatened, they turned to God for deliverance. When the harvest was bountiful the first thought was thanksgiving to God.

  Ronald Reagan

  God, Country, Hard Work

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• Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to the places of election, to overthrow their tyrants, and to substitute men who would be disposed to avenge the violated majesty of the people?

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Rights, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.296, Cambridge University Press

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• Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Careers, Numbers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.10, Coventry House Publishing

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• Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Block, Nuts, Land

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.139, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.

  Luc de Clapiers

  War, Desire, Common

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• With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.

  Howard Zinn

  Military, War, Smart

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.51, Seven Stories Press

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• Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.

  Eugene V. Debs

  War, Fighting, Men

  Eugene V. Debs' speech he gave across the street from a jail, where he had just visited three socialists who were in prison for opposing the draft, June 1918.

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• Love is a tyrant sparing none.

  Pierre Corneille

  Love, Love Is, One Love

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene ii, 1636.

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• Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. If a black is a tyrant, he is first and foremost a tyrant, then he incidentally is black. Bush is a tyrant and if he gathers around him black tyrants, they all have to be treated as they are being treated.

  Harry Belafonte

  Color, Black, Quality

  Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 11, 2005.

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• There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body

  Margot Kidder

  Vitamins And Minerals, Medicine, Body

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• Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.

  Aldous Huxley

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Mad, Kind

  YouTube Chanel "Uncle Spellbinder"/ "Bill Maher - New Rules [Noah's Ark, God and Religion]", www.youtube.com. March 14, 2014.

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• But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Long, Design

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.202, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

  John Knox

  People, Promise, Oath

  John Knox (1831). “The history of the reformation of religion in Scotland”, p.462

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• Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Men, Self

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• To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Yield, Reason, Impulse

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• Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Public Opinion, Mediocrity, Hydra

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, World Government, History

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Peace, Truth

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• The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Power, Common

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters”, p.163

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• The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

  Angelina Grimke

  War, Struggle, Land

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