To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity. — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“He's spent all his life in good-natured rebellion against the tyranny of the unimportant.” — Robin Hardy Copy Share Image
The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I woke up one morning and realised that one of the problems with being a middle-aged man - of being a man… — James May Copy Share Image
“But as I make the laws here, I can also break them. With impunity. . . Which I'm afraid you CAN'T do.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same time for… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of… — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women. These should therefore be our chief study;… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
People can live without a giant state. We've proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people. We feed… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public;… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Just as religion has fettered the human mind, and as property, or the monopoly of things, has subdued and stifled man’s needs,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Judicial activists are nothing short of radicals in robes--contemptuous of the rule of law, subverting the Constitution at will, and using their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and… — Claude Gueant Copy Share Image
Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
It was during the eighteenth century - a period of boastful satisfaction with the nice balances within the English constitution - that… — Joyce Lee Malcolm Copy Share Image
I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
The bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought… — Daniel Behrman Copy Share Image
Those are the murderers of art who are sitting on the top wearing crowns of fake intelligence. Let me bring them down… — Jeet Aulakh Copy Share Image
As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say:… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
