Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety.… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator,… — Elbridge Gerry Copy Share Image
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism,… — Eugene Victor Debs Copy Share Image
Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the antidote to tyranny, a powerful force that dismantles the walls of oppression and allows the sunlight of scrutiny… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“Universal peace-time conscription was adopted by almost all countries as the basis of their military system. This ensured that wars would grow… — Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets… — Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo Copy Share Image
Throughout history we have seen the tyranny of the powerful over the less powerful - think of the history of colonialism or… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Naming a street in Washington, D.C., after Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy advocate and journalist standing up for human rights in Hong Kong,… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice-- The weakness and the wickedness of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the… — Elizabeth Drew Copy Share Image
The legal system we have and the rule of law are far more responsible for our traditional liberties than any system of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as… — Julie Bindel Copy Share Image
If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society… — Jean Francois Revel Copy Share Image
Do you want to know where President Barack Obama is ultimately headed with his gun control edicts? Look no further than his… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout… — Rick Scott Copy Share Image
I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
If we are going to have a Fed, it should not fall into the tyranny of experts with the a fatal conceit… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
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