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It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time.
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.
The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.
I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.
And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.
The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.
If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.
I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.
We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.