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    Tyrants' Prosecution in Focus 2007

  • One of the five Confucian truths about Tyrants, is that they can implement change quickly.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • All Kings they called Tyrants; and the Aristocracy of the thirty Governours set up there by the Lacedemonians that subdued them, the thirty Tyrants: As also to call the condition of the people under the Democracy, Liberty.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • I mean those, which I have in the precedent Chapter specified: as That men shall Judge of what is lawfull and unlawfull, not by the Law it selfe, but by their own private Judgements; That Subjects sinne in obeying the Commands of the Common-wealth, unlesse they themselves have first judged them to be lawfull: That their Propriety in their riches is such, as to exclude the Dominion, which the Common-wealth hath over the same: That it is lawfull for Subjects to kill such, as they call Tyrants: That the Soveraign Power may be divided, and the like; which come to be instilled into the People by this means.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Among the most noted of the Tyrants were the Pisistratidæ, at Athens, of whom we shall speak hereafter; Periander at Corinth (625-585 B.C.), who was a most cruel ruler, yet so generous a patron of artists and literary men that he was thought worthy of a place among the Seven Sages; and

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • Then, when the people had gained the ascendency, ambitious and factious demagogues in turn, got the control, and these adventurers, now called Tyrants, assumed arbitrary powers.

    Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852

  • All the while also giving billions of $'s to his Freedom Fighter's Saddam Hussein and Osma Bin Laden who have been relabeled "Tyrants" by the GOP today.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Reagan Chose To Negotiate With the Evil Empire 2009

  • Then when these "Tyrants" are no longer needed, they are re-labeled as "Terrorist's" by the GOP "Greed & Oppression Party", with some being hunted down and hung, others going to prison, while another doesn't even have a warrant out for his arrest by the FBI, even though the Bu$h II cabal accuse him of masterminding 9/11 from the depths of a cave in Afghanistan.

    White House Lied About Iraqi Yellowcake Buy, But That's Not the Biggest Scandal 2008

  • LCS members challenged this report by recalling the word "Tyrants" rather than "Kings" (Thale 140 n. 113).

    The Discourse of Treason, Sedition, and Blasphemy in British Political Trials, 1794-1820 1999

  • Sages themselves no fewer than three were bits of Despotic Kings, [Gr.] _Turannoi_, "Tyrants" so called (such being greatly wanted there); and that the other four were very far from Red Republicans, if of any political faith whatever!

    Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

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