Tyranny I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.YOU MAY ALSO LIKE ยปResistance to tyrants is obedience to God.Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.