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Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Blaise Pascal

Poor economies breed tyrannies.
Doris Lessing /Prisons We Choose to Live Inside/

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato

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