A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it. — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it. — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
The Constitution is like my old blue dress ... it doesn't fit anymore. — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“What is the greater good but tyranny’s chameleon? For eons it has changed skins to sate the current ruler’s hunger for political… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart. — Kate Clinton Copy Share Image
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them — John Milton Copy Share Image
Our constitutional scheme - the design of our government - is erected to prevent tyranny. — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny. — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another... It is a most extraordinary thing that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
A weekly column is not always a treat. It can be a tyranny. There are times when I have very little to… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given… — George Washington 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
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“I am not in all cases and under all circumstances against a violent revolution. I believe with some medieval and Renaissance Christian… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
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
There is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
