Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.