Quotes About Tyranny

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“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.”
― Thomas Jefferson




“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress





“If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
― James Madison




“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
― Thomas Jefferson



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