#tyra

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#being #government #land #laws #namely

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free. ↗

— George W. Bush

#free #iraq #tyrant

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. ↗

— George Byron

#any #expect #find #gives #later

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#law #name #perpetuated #shield #than

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#action #add #always #around #because

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#compel #funds #furnish #ideas #man

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#altar #eternal #every #form #god

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#dawn #day #enlighten #evil #generally

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. ↗

— Ma Jian

#i #i believe #i believe that #literature #power

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror. ↗

— Michael Johns

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