All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain. — John Donne Copy Share Image
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength. — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
“A cowardly tyrant only remembers his own greatness in imagination.” — Duop Chak Wuol Copy Share Image
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring… — Plato Copy Share Image
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The value of free speech lies not just in the protection of popular opinions but in the shelter it provides for dissenting… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The cunning villains used our innocence, naivety and honesty; they incited and steered our virtue, purity and fervent temperaments. When we realized… — Lin Zhao Copy Share Image
The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
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