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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  (Tyranny Quotes) What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean  (Tyranny Quotes) The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home  (Tyranny Quotes) The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts  (Tyranny Quotes) Who of you appreciate the galling humiliation, the refinements of degradation, to which women... Are subject, in this the last half of the nineteenth century? How many of you have ever read even the laws concerning them that now disgrace your statute books? In cruelty and tyranny, they are not surpassed by any slave holding code in the Southern States  (Tyranny Quotes) All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent  (Tyranny Quotes) How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?  (Tyranny Quotes) The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on Earth  (Tyranny Quotes) Society can and does execute it's own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself  (Tyranny Quotes) Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, it's own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them  (Tyranny Quotes) As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to  (Tyranny Quotes) It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think  (Tyranny Quotes) Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter  (Tyranny Quotes) The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America  (Tyranny Quotes) He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread  (Tyranny Quotes) Although tyranny... may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people  (Tyranny Quotes) The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love  (Tyranny Quotes) You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence democracy, and the other tyranny  (Tyranny Quotes) To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking  (Tyranny Quotes) It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted  (Tyranny Quotes) A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment  (Tyranny Quotes) America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society  (Tyranny Quotes) I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past  (Tyranny Quotes) In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc  (Tyranny Quotes) Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility  (Tyranny Quotes) My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society  (Tyranny Quotes) Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny  (Tyranny Quotes) The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant  (Tyranny Quotes) Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us  (Tyranny Quotes) Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny  (Tyranny Quotes)
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