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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. B. R. Ambedkar | top
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They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny. John Boehner | top
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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. George W. Bush | top
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant. George Byron | top
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. Emile M. Cioran | top
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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. Emile M. Cioran | top
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. Emile M. Cioran | top
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper | top
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My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. Pierre Corneille | top
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The mob is the mother of tyrants. Diogenes | top
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. Oriana Fallaci | 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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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 | top
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Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Christopher Hitchens | top
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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. Elbert Hubbard | top
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The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. Phillip E. Johnson | top
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist. Carl Levin | top
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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 | top
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The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Lyn Nofziger | top
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Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. Charles Peguy | top
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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 | top
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While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will. Bill Shuster | top
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | top
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The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it. Noah Webster | 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
