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tyra Quotes and Quotations
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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 | top
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Adams | top
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And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime. Bob Balaban | top
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke | top
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper | top
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Love is a tyrant sparing none. Pierre Corneille | top
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. Demosthenes | top
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There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. Buenaventura Durruti | top
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Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. Thomas Fuller | top
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. Maggie Gallagher | top
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And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history. David Icke | top
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson | top
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We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. Carl Levin | top
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. James Madison | top
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We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny. Mohammed Omar | top
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Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul. James Otis | top
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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. Maximilien Robespierre | top
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May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen. Michael Servetus | top
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. Stephen Spender | top
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In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. Randall Terry | top
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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. Barbara Tuchman | top
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Walt Whitman | top
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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. Rowan D. Williams | top
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. Frances Wright | top
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. Yevgeny Yevtushenko | top
