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  • “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 47 · View
  • “Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Faction is the precursor to tyranny. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Samuel Cooper · View
  • “A virtuous People is the best Defense against Tyranny. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Silence Dogood Letter No. 10 · View
  • “History furnishes no example of a free republic, anything like the extent of the United States their governments were changed from that of free governments to those of the most tyrannical. ”
    Robert Yates (Brutus) , Brutus. Essay I, 18 Oct 1787. · View
  • “I cannot conceive that the people of America will choose, and every second year repeat the choice of, sixty-five or a hundred men who would be disposed to form and pursue a scheme of tyranny or treachery. ”
    James Madison , Madison, James. Federalist No. 55, 15 Feb 1788. · View
  • “If the president is possessed of ambition, he has power and time sufficient to ruin his country. ”
    George Clinton (Cato) , Cato (George Clinton). Letter IV, New-York Journal, 8 Nov 1787. · View
  • “Taxation without representation is tyranny. ”
    Gouverneur Morris , Speech to the Continental Congress · View
  • “If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ”
    James Madison , Speech to Congress · View
  • “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Benjamin Rush · View
  • “The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View
  • “I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Benjamin Rush · View
  • “Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ”
    John Hancock , Speech to the Massachusetts Legislature · View
  • “Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. ”
    John Hancock , Speech to the Massachusetts Legislature · View