While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils… — Aesop Copy Share Image
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. — Plato Copy Share Image
I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“This nation is very strange. It watches tyranny in silence and in time it proves its own will—the fact of its existence—through… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
“If I do not do this thing, then it may go on and on. Nothing of the greater good comes without struggle… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Clearly if the United States' relationship with Cuba changed, which would require a regime change inside Cuba, if Cuba moved towards a… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the… — Ludwig Lewisohn Copy Share Image
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
I think Jorge Borges said that when Argentineans die they turn into angels and go and live in Uruguay. But for the… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's… — E.C. Riegel Copy Share Image
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost… — George Orwell 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
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
In World War II, America was the Arsenal of Democracy, providing war materiel to our Allies that ultimately led to victory over… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.” — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.' — Plato Copy Share Image
The Fifth 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
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I do not have a 10-point plan or a formula for reversing our accelerating slide into tyranny. But any fool can see… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
