Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison 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
The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of… — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Rejoicing in his absolute authority, the single egoist will exploit it methodically, whereas a mêlée of egoists will bring about a ruinous… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism,… — Eugene Victor Debs Copy Share Image
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator,… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety.… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny - and… — David Lloyd Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of… — Otto Hermann Kahn Copy Share Image
Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing… — Don Cupitt 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 Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
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