The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before… — Sheila Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
People can live without a giant state. We've proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people. We feed… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public;… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is “systematic.” The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“And that’s the terrible myth of organized society. That everything that’s done through the established system is legal. And that word has… — William M. Kunstler Copy Share Image
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power… — Richard Diebenkorn Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of… — Honorius Augustodunensis Copy Share Image
Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more… — Geoff Ryman Copy Share Image
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and… — Leopold Kohr Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other… — Alfred William Howitt Copy Share Image
If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
“Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or in whom the natural selfishness of sensibility hasn’t been expanded by reflection,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and… — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
“Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“He said to people: you’re free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
