I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny.… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.” — Justice Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government,… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger Copy Share Image
The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“It is not a conclusive proof of a doctrine’s correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we… — Allen West Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny:… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the antidote to tyranny, a powerful force that dismantles the walls of oppression and allows the sunlight of scrutiny… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Demon” means “knowledge” in Greek. “Science” means “knowledge” in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We deserve an America that can protect itself from tyranny without leaving its children vulnerable to terrorism. — John E. James Copy Share Image
Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The miracle of compounding returns has been overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs. — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
“The framers were realists; they recognized that the best constitution in the world could be distorted and destroyed by men determined to… — John Eidsmoe Copy Share Image
Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny. — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny. — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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