It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength. — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter. — Saadi Copy Share Image
“grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.” — John Clare Copy Share Image
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let… — Fob James Copy Share Image
Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make… — Emilia Lanier Copy Share Image
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain. — John Donne Copy Share Image
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“When evil forces seize power, you can expect tyranny, brutality , and disaster.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
