Tyranny is a habit; it is able to, and does develop finally into a disease.[Тиранство есть привычка; оно одарено развитием, оно развивается, наконец, в болезнь.]
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is merely potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.[On appelle tyran le souverain qui ne connaît de lois que son caprice.]
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.
As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.