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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. Thomas Jefferson

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard

Rule Tyrant Martyr Over His Begins Dies

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. Aristotle

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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. Aristotle

People Tyrant Both Arms Mistrust Them Deprive Therefore

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Adams

Words Will Tools Tyrant How Plain Meaning Meaning Of Strangely

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley

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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. Friedrich August von Hayek

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato

First Other Tyrant He Protector Springs Which Root Appears

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. Voltaire

Tyrant Laws Knows His Sovereign Caprice Who

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. Aesop

Will Tyrant Excuse Any Serve

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty Men Earth Tyrant Worship Heaven While Little

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day. Richard Jefferies

Day History Matter Will Evil Men Own Our Despot Tyrant Sight Bitterest Rushed Saddest Most Execute Read Ready How However His Hands Serve Eagerly

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. Barack Obama

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In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. Emil Cioran

Tyrant Mental Stuff Order Certain Necessary

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. Elbert Hubbard

Freedom Every Tyrant Himself Who Lived Believed

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Death Age Youth Old Old Age Pain Tyrant Pleasures Who

So my character on 'Tyrant' is a chap called Barry Al Fayeed, and he is the second son of a fictional Middle Eastern dictator. But, he has grown up since he was young in America. He's trained as a doctor. He's married a beautiful American girl, had two kids, so he's very much an American. Adam Rayner

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Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible. Adam Rayner

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In my travels, which have been wider than ever man yet accomplished, I have seen many, many wild beasts of Arabia and India; but this beast, that is commonly called a Tyrant, I know not how many heads it has, nor if it be crooked of claw, and armed with horrible fangs. Apollonius of Tyana

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