“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty. — John Basil Barnhill Copy Share Image
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel… — James Otis Copy Share Image
As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The 5th 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
A decision by the Fuhrer in the express form of a law or a decree may not be scrutinized by a judge.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs.… — Marcy Kaptur Copy Share Image
To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
