Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Edmund Burke
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor and this I know that where law ends there tyranny begins.
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Lord Chatham
He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.
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Claudian
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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Walter Colton
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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George Washington
More Quotes By Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on...
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
