Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny’s rise; once one man learns of another’s captivity, he will act to free him. It… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigorously, more vigorously, and more severely, than by one. — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
“There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.” — Eric Robert Morse Copy Share Image
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![“It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3fd/thomas-jefferson-43_certain_it-appears-that-however-certain-forms-of_1041215.jpg)
