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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history. ↗

— Norman Corwin

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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. ↗

— Confucius

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We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive. ↗

— James Hillman

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My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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