Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
I have sworn upon the altar of god.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
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.
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.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
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.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
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.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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