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“It is blasphemy to call tyrants and oppressors, God’s ministers. They are more properly the messengers of Satan to buffet us. No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are just, ruling in the fear of God”
― Jonathan Mayhew

tags: fear-of-god, gods-law, government, oppressors, romans-13, tyranny, tyrants

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“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: oppression, revenge, transference, tyranny

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“Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny" Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard”
― Hank Quense

tags: authority, government, tyranny

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

tags: meaning, tyranny, words

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“New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.”
― Edward Pearson Pressey, History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town