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
Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a… — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm… — Marquis de Custine Copy Share Image
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Just as religion has fettered the human mind, and as property, or the monopoly of things, has subdued and stifled man’s needs,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
It is perfectly clear that people, given no alternative, will choose tyranny over anarchy, because anarchy is the worst tyranny of all...… — Eric Sevareid Copy Share Image
The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path… — Uthman ibn Affan Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Only one American has given his life for Iranian democracy. He was a young idealist from Nebraska named Howard Baskerville. In 1907,… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“If a man is convinced that he is safe only as long as he uses his power to give others a sense… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and… — Fouad Ajami Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
“When attempting at understanding and grasping the truth concerning horrors of tyranny and oppression...To experience these first hand is the only viable… — Daryavesh Rothmensch Copy Share Image
But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom…when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make… — Emilia Lanier Copy Share Image
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