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«No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.»
Author: J. Michael Straczynski
(Producer)
| About:
Army,
Dictators,
Freedom,
Government,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
Armed force, armed forces, armies, dictator, governments, imprisoned, invader, Invaders, population, tyrants
«Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable»
Author: L. Estrange
| About:
Injustice,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
equity, forcing, insupportable, Letter of, sorts, The Letter
«There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war»
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
| About:
Civilization,
History,
Tyranny,
War
| Keywords:
aggression, historic, imperfect, inheritance, refusal, situations
«There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
crueler, Law and Justice, perpetuated, perpetuating, shield, The name, The Shield, 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
| Keywords:
exercised, oppressive, sincerely, tyrannies, tyranny, victims
«Necessity, the tyrant's plea»
«There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful»
«Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.»
«Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.»
«Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs»
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