Tyranny Quotes · Page 52

It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is…

— Ron Paul

Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow…

— Steven Erikson

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

— Salvador Dali

“Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.”

— Alex Storozynski

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

— Milovan ?ilas

While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils…

— Aesop

Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

— Anonymous

it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny'…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That…

— Gordon Klingenschmitt

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom…

— Ronald Reagan

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

— Thomas Jefferson

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents…

— Albert Einstein

The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that…

— George Bernard Shaw

The principle of allegiance to the Constitution is basic to our freedom....when you see government invading any of these realms of freedom…

— J. Reuben Clark

“Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force?…

— Tiffany Madison

In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both…

— Michael Novak

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate…

— Michael Parenti

A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law.

— John Marshall

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible…

— Mike Crapo

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

— Emily Greene Balch

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

— Anonymous

The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for…

— James A. Baldwin

Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose…

— Henry Giroux