Roger, the real King of France, has posted a humdinger tonight.  Take a peek at this juxtaposition:


"When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."
— Thomas Jefferson (attributed to Jefferson, by his contemporaries)

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
— Thomas Jefferson (attributed to Jefferson, by his contemporaries)

"... rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual"
— Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany - 1819) 

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” 
— C.S. Lewis

“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them”
— Voltaire 

“The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.”
—  Oscar Wilde quotes

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”
— Plato

“The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy”
 — Charles de Montesquieu

And in contrast to all this wisdom, our pearl from President (for now) Obama:


"Reject voices that warn of government tyranny"
President Barack (nee Barry) Obama Soetoro; commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University

Why Barry?  Got something planned?