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Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.
[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny.
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
I'd rather get past the tyranny of now, where you get judged for something based on what's happening at the moment.
According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.
Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.
Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.