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Tyranny Quotes
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Bleed, bleed, poor Country! Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, For goodness dare not check thee; wear thou thy wrongs, The title is affeered! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. (Quote by - Jacques Delille)
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. (Quote by - Zell Miller)
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved. (Quote by - Cornelius Nepos)
O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Since that the truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accursed And does blaspheme his breed? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins (Quote by - John Locke)
Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. (Quote by - Frank L. Stanton)
You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'. (Quote by - Gordon Strachan)
'Twixt kings and tyrans there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their owne. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)