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«If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
fighting, foreign, guise, land, oppression, tyranny
«For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.»
«Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst»
«In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
balance, balancing, degeneration, dramatic, government, healthiest, healthy, kind of, nation, prevents, the government, The People, tyrannies, tyranny
«Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Tyranny
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exercised, oppressive, sincerely, tyrannies, tyranny, victims
«How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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aloft, constantly, costing, costs, danger, effort, five, free, freedom, free man, highest, High Ones, individuals, measured, nations, near, neared, nearing, nears, overcome, resistance, seek, servitude, stay, steps, that nation, threshold, thresholds, type, typed, type A, typing, tyrannies, tyranny
«It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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American, American Express, democratic, disease, expresses, herd, herding, level, reducing, The American, The Herd, tyranny, unique, vice
«No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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abused, abuse of power, abusing, bear, form of government, Human nature, remedy, safe, tyranny
«History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
bodies, individuals, informed, informs, susceptible, The Spirit, tyranny
«I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
altar, eternal, hostilities, hostility, sworn, tyranny, with hostility
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