To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Dictatorships are ramifications of the ignorant and misguided few , which are then imposed upon and suffered, by the many!.” — Daryavesh Rothmensch Copy Share Image
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the Libyan people, the United States and our friends… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
My goal is very clear, and I wrote about it in Lean In, which is that women run half our companies and… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He… — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny. — Jane Swisshelm Copy Share Image
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
