#tyra

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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


#good #may #most #oppressive #sincerely

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.


Trent Lott


#easily #established #lasts #never #once

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.


James Madison


#become #danger #defense #foreign #historically

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.


James Madison


#enemy #fighting #foreign #guise #land

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.


Norman Mailer


#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.


Henry James Sumner Maine


#certainly #doubt #engine #leave #lodged

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.


Andre Malraux


#been #despair #end #fall #history

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.


Jonathan Mayhew


#apostle #common #down #here #inspired

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.


Herman Melville


#dying #evermore #fellows #indulged #little

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.


Henry Miller


#democratic #disease #everything #expresses #herd