The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength. — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“within every technological advancement lie the seeds of tyranny and slavery.” — Michael Bunker Copy Share Image
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Tyranny over the mind is the most complete and most brutal type of tyranny; every other tyranny begins and ends with it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of a set purpose by logical means is the way of tyranny... The pursuit of an unobtainable purpose by absurd… — Tom King Copy Share Image
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
“Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Communism made through the will of a government instead of through the direct and voluntary work of groups of workers does not… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
In France, I guess there's something like a tyranny in mentalities - we accept success badly, beauty, money. People are certainly envious,… — Emmanuelle Seigner Copy Share Image
If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics,… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
When you consider that God could have commanded anything he wanted--anything!--the Ten [Commandments] have got to rank as one of the great… — Katha Pollitt 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
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors…… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“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
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason. — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority. — William Inge Copy Share Image
We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny" — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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