Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. — Robert Herrick 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
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
