Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.” — Steven Chuks Nwakokeke Copy Share Image
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than… — Chuck Baldwin Copy Share Image
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save,… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny… An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
American tyranny has come gradually, like a slow rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils… — Wolfe Tone Copy Share Image
it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny'… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
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