"Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less."

Tyranny, Government, Power, Control, Freedom

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"Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less."

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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: "Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about."

Pat Robertson, American Clergyman

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"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"A tyrant has uncommon moral compass."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Everybody would be a dictator if he could."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants."

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist

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"It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore."

Gregory Maguire, American Novelist

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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."

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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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"For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end."

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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

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"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."

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"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."

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"Most people want security in this world, not liberty."

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"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

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"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."

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