A weekly column is not always a treat. It can be a tyranny. There are times when I have very little to… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it. — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I believe that we will see cases like these that will continue because we're talking about companies that are doing business with… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics.… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I have always admired the courage of ordinary individuals to step up and speak out against injustice and tyranny. — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“t's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of… — Adam Nicolson 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