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Robert A. Heinlein
"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
— Robert A. Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)
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James Madison
"If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
— James Madison
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Philip Pullman
"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
— Philip Pullman
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Robert Fanney
"Under tyranny it is right to be a rebel!"
— Robert Fanney
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Aldous Huxley
"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."
— Aldous Huxley
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Thomas Jefferson
""When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.""
— Thomas Jefferson
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Aeschylus
"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends."
— Aeschylus (Prometheus Bound)
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Thomas Jefferson
"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
— Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed."
— Thomas Jefferson
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"In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point
out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is
not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate
them."
— Pierre Elliot Trudeau
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Frank Beddor
""Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny."
-Bibwit"
— Frank Beddor (Seeing Redd)
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Ayn Rand
"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. "
— Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
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Thomas Jefferson
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
— Thomas Jefferson
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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
— Samuel Adams
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Thomas Jefferson
""A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.""
— Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
— Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
"It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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— Thomas Jefferson
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""If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.""
— Samuel Adams
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