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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about real estate, contentment

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

Quote by Edward Abbey

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Quote by William Godwin about revolution

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Quote by Lord Acton about elections, democracy, force, police

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Quote by Aeschylus about tirany, destiny, death

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about prejudice

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan, the battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Quote by Mohammed Omar about fire, injustice, home, house

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Quote by Thomas Paine about reason, faith, real estate

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

Quote by Mike Pence about democracy, peace, good, good luck, people

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Quote by Charles Monroe Schulz about tirany, justice, name, law

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about democracy

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Quote by Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre about politics, secret, people