“Freedom of speech is detestable only to those who have no desire to think for themselves.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints… — Michael Walzer Copy Share Image
[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the "tyranny of custom." People stuck in that rut might say "why?" and… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Over the years, Britain has made her own, unique contribution to Europe. We have provided a haven to those fleeing tyranny and… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny;… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it. — Wayne LaPierre 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
“The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image