A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts. — Al-Farabi Copy Share Image
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents... whether open or disguised as… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture… — Peter Fenn Copy Share Image
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness. — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.” — Robert Dodson Copy Share Image
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will… — Mohammed Omar Copy Share Image
