Tyranny Quotes

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826)

They have forgotten the lessons of history that the ultimate failures of dictatorships cost humanity far more than any temporary failures of democracy. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882-1945)

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. (John Steinbeck, 1902-1968)

The history if women is the history if the worst tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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