Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France (London: J.Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.368), in Saint Basil on Social Justice, edited and translated by C. Everything submits to its tyranny, everything cowers at its dominion. Nothing withstands the influence of wealth.Joanna Baillie, Ethwald (1802), Part II, Act V, scene 3.The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber as translated by George Fyler Townsend (1887).The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.Aesop The Wolf and the Lamb from Aesop's Fables (c.Washington The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Washington: Taylor & Maury, 1853-4) vol. John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 13, 1815, in H.The fundamental article of my political creed is, that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical.Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people. He has exerted the vengeance of history upon the emperors, but has veiled the conspiracies against them, and the incorrigible corruption of the people which probably provoked their most atrocious cruelties. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire.1 Marchamont Nedham : The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth Examined, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787). If "Thou shall not covet," and "Thou shall not steal," are not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free. The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.External links A Tyranny can scarcely be practised upon a virtuous and wise people.Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations.Arranged alphabetically by author or source:
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