I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can… — Joseph Farah Copy Share Image
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus… — Michael Johns Copy Share Image
“As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an… — Jose Ramos-Horta Copy Share Image
“The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
We are a country where the ancestors of slaves and newcomers escaping tyranny and violence can rise to the highest positions in… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian… — Augustus Sol Invictus Copy Share Image
