Voltaire Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Fear, Sleep

• Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

  Voltaire

  Law, Tyrants, Support

• The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

  Voltaire

  Exercise, Rights, Law

• The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

  Voltaire

  Government, Tyrants, Politics

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