Tyranny
The government or authority of a tyrant; a country governed by an absolute ruler; hence, arbitrary or despotic exercise of power; exercise of power over subjects and others with a rigor not authorized by law or justice, or not requisite for the purposes of government.
Cruel government or discipline; as, the tyranny of a schoolmaster.
Severity; rigor; inclemency.
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Tyranny Quotations
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
C. S. Lewis
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato
Tyranny Translations
tyranny in German is Zwangsherrschaft, Gewaltherrschaft
tyranny in Latin is dominatus
tyranny in Swedish is tyranni
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