Tyranny: indiscriminately it ought to appeal any government in which those who are responsible for esecuzion laws can make them, destroy them, break them, interpret them, prevent them, suspend them, or even just circumvent security of impunity. And then, and this disrupts-law is hereditary, or is elective, usurper, or legitimate, good, or sad, one, or many, anyway, anyone who has an effective force, which is enough to do this, you tyrant, and every company, which admits it is tyranny, and every people, that endures, is a slave.
Vittorio Alfieri, 1777
