Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines… — R. R. Reno Copy Share Image
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it. — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of… — Margaret Thatcher 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
“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
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