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Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.


Adam Weishaupt


#circumstance #constitution #directed #jealous #noble

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.


Frances Wright


#exert #expense #injury #justly #liberties

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


#jefferson #opression #tyranny #enlightenment

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.


Jacob Lew


#democracy #handle #hard #people #regime

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.


Ayn Rand


#education #power #tyranny #education

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

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

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.


Bertrand Russell


#apt #capitalism #embodied #exercise #fortunate

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.


Wole Soyinka


#face #keep #man #silent #tyranny

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.


Jon Stewart


#battle #between #checks #culture #freedom






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