Tyranny

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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

John Adams

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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Ingrid Newkirk

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Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Steve Buyer

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We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

James H. Douglas Jr.

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Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Joe Biden

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I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror — and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.

Doc Hastings

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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Plato

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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.

Thomas Jefferson

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There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Maggie Gallagher

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Edmund Burke

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It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Alexander Hamilton

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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Aesop

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Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Charlton Heston

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