Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.

Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more…

— Lord Byron

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny,…

— Aristotle

“And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”

— Daniel Defoe

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

— Daniel Defoe

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

— Aldous Huxley

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

— John le Carre

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;…

— Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

— William Shakespeare

One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities,…

— Lewis Mumford

I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the…

— Sharron Angle

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives…

— Anonymous

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period…

— Thomas Jefferson

There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's…

— Allen West

When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't…

— Joan Z. Borysenko

There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out…

— Lyndon B. Johnson