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Tyranny Quotes - Page 2

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Attributed in John Adams, Letter toWilliam Tudor, 29 Mar. 1818. This maxim, which is often quoted as the rallying cry for the American Revolution, has been attributed to Otis's argument against the writs of assistance before the Superior Court of Massachusetts in February 1761. However, there is no contemporary record of Otis using these words. John Adams, in describing the event fifty-seven years later, referred in his letter to Tudor to "Mr Otis's maxim, that 'taxation without representation w

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

"Court Defends Anonymity of Pamphleteers" by Joan Biskupic, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 1995.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.53, Hamilton Books

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

"Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

"The Karl Marx Library: On the First International".

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

"Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 13, 2003.

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387