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«A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty»
Author: George Baumler
| About:
Liberty,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
American Dream, oppressive, regulation, regulations, seepage, sink, strike, wave
«The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.»
Author: John C. Calhoun
| Keywords:
absolute majority, checked, devised, efficiently, oppressive, The Absolute, tyrannical, tyrannical governments
«When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.»
Author: Paul Goodman
| Keywords:
conformity, establishes, like-minded, migrate, migrates, migrating, minded, oppressive, The New Yorker, village, yokel, yokels
«We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.»
Author: Rudolph W. Giuliani
| Keywords:
background, Background and, cede, comes out, concept, discretion, lawful, oppressive, willingness
«Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
forms of government, oppressive, reigns, Reign of Terror, terror, thrown, throw off
«Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Tyranny
| Keywords:
exercised, oppressive, sincerely, tyrannies, tyranny, victims
«An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.»
«The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
against time, aimed, defending, fighting, one time, oppression, oppressive, scoundrels, spends, stopped
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