We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty. — John Basil Barnhill Copy Share Image
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws… — William Pitt The Younger Copy Share Image
Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“if our rights are not unalienable, if they don’t come from a source higher than ourselves, then they’re malleable at the will… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
“I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Marriage is not defined in the federal Constitution at all; it's a matter for the states. And applying the Fourteenth Amendment to… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“More than half a century ago, the classic novels of totalitarianism warned of the domination of screens, the suppression of books, the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“tyranny cannot stand forever. It is an ugly beast that must feed. Eventually, the Empire will devour everything it has, and will… — Christie Golden Copy Share Image
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." — Maria Canals Barrera Copy Share Image
“Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
“grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.” — John Clare Copy Share Image
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of… — John Hospers Copy Share Image
