"The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors."
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"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."
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"Tyranny is always weakness"
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"Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny."
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"The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us."
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"Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."
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"Secrecy begets tyranny."
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"If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed."
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"The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny."
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"Hardness ever of hardness is mother."
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"I know all about the tyranny of women."
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"Resisting tyranny is obeying God"
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"The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others."
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"Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny."
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"I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment."
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"Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them."
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"Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny."
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"We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past."
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"What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?"
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"The greatest tyranny is to love I where we are not loved again."
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