Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.
Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
Where the law ends tyranny begins.
We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.