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 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1949 - 220 pages
...August 11, 1846, more than 100 years ago — and concluding on page 22 of the transcript mentioned : "The greatest tyranny has the smallest beginnings....tyrannical usage which generations of wise and good men may hereafter perceive and lament and resist in vain. At present, common minds no more see a crushing tyranny... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1949 - 220 pages
...August 11, 1846, more than 100 years ago — and concluding on page 22 of the transcript mentioned : "The greatest tyranny has the smallest beginnings....tyrannical usage which generations of wise and good men may hereafter perceive and lament and resist in vain. At present, common minds no more see a crushing tyranny... | |
 | Standardization - 1951 - 430 pages
...better where we are going when we know where we came from. Let me end with an admonition from the Times. "The greatest tyranny has the smallest beginnings....with complacence, springs the tyrannical usage which generation? of wise and good men may hereafter perceive and lament and resist in vain. Hence the necessity... | |
 | Crime - 1955 - 716 pages
...at our peril. The warning was set forth with vigor more than 100 years ago in The Times of London: "The greatest tyranny has the smallest beginnings....tyrannical usage which generations of wise and good men may hereafter perceive and lament and resist in vain. At present, common minds no more see a crushing tyranny... | |
 | Industries - 1953 - 440 pages
...a fresh look at it from a different angle. Perhaps we had better listen to this newspaper warning: "From remonstrances despised, from grievances treated...powerless men oppressed with impunity and overbearing, and tolerated with complacence, springs the tyrannical usage which generations of wise and good men... | |
 | India - 1966 - 642 pages
...'T'HE most violent tyranny has the smallest beginnings. From precedents overlooked, from remonstrations despised, from grievances treated with ridicule, from...springs the tyrannical usage which generations of good and wise men may hereafter perceive and lament and resist in vain." -A WESTERN THINKER (Quoted... | |
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