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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.


Reinhold Niebuhr


#aggression #civilization #consequences #defend #even

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.


James F. Cooper


#democracies #exhibit #form #law #masses

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.


Michael Novak


#condition #default #free #history #human

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.


Barack Obama


#agents #around #been #decades #denied

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.


Plato


#democracy #naturally #out #tyranny

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.


Plato


#conquest #disposed #fear #foreign #leader

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.


Dennis Prager


#bureaucrats #century #dictators #done #faceless

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.


James H. Douglas


#fighting #must #peace #terror #times

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.


Jean Claude Duvalier


#amnesia #gives #impression #laugh #makes

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created.


Jay Rockefeller


#bring #civil #civil war #created #dilemma






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