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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

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A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

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What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

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The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

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The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.

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Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

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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.

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Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.

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The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

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Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of luxury-- The negligence--the apathy--the evils Of sensual sloth--produces ten thousand tyrants, Whose delegated cruelty surpasses The worst acts of one energetic master, However harsh and hard in his own bearing.

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If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.

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They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

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Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?

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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

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How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the hopes of the decent and tolerant. And that is the force of human freedom.

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