The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
America was founded by men who understood that the threat of domestic tyranny is as great as any threat from abroad. If… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Net return is simply the gross return of your investment portfolio less the costs you incur. Keep your investment expenses low, for… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Zionism is a subject that all but a few are either too ignorant or too frightened to tackle and expose, but it… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force?… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors…… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture… — Peter Fenn Copy Share Image
The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many… — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle… Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you.… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely… — Bliss Carman Copy Share Image
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
It is time for free nations to stop ignoring or even normalizing tyranny. Not only is it the right thing to do… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice… — Charlie Baker Copy Share Image
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
We live in a two-party tyranny that doesn't believe in competition, can enforce it with penalties and obstructions, and they're getting closer… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
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