“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” — James Madison Copy Share Image
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it… — Pericles Copy Share Image
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines… — R. R. Reno Copy Share Image
The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the… — John Walford Copy Share Image
It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom.… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The concept of fourth-generation wars simply refers to the use of disinformation, funding subversive N.G.O.s, and spreading rumours as a method for… — Maged Mandour Copy Share Image
Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Freedom is necessary for two reasons. It's necessary for the individual, because the individual, no matter how good the society is, every… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Of course such a failed state as Indonesia is fully supported by Western academia and the mass media, because it does what… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own. — Milovan ?ilas Copy Share Image
Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private… — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. — David Hume Copy Share Image
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the… — Clara Barton 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
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Tyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere. — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
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