“Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“The grand castle in Cartigo, the capital city of Cierith, stood high against the full moon and cast a heavy shadow across… — Brittany Comeaux Copy Share Image
Naming a street in Washington, D.C., after Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy advocate and journalist standing up for human rights in Hong Kong,… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
“Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the… — Joseph C. Morecraft III Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them. — John Milton Copy Share Image
When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics,… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. — Frank Lebby Stanton Copy Share Image
Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we… — Jeffrey Burton Russell Copy Share Image
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image