Edmund Burke Quotes About Tyranny
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
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A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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