The Crucible became by far my most frequently produced play, both abroad and at home. Its meaning is somewhat different in different… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
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In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can… — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
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Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
An atheist is merely someone who doesn't believe in god/s. Atheism matters to me because I see what religion does to people,… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the… — Sherwin Wine Copy Share Image
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The seeds of freedom . . . have now been scattered where despotism and tyranny ranked and ruled, will be watered by… — Henry McNeal Turner Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and… — Umar Copy Share Image
Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
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I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
[T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad, and they know that they… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
“There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Citizenship has been out of fashion for some decades in our country, but now it is back in fashion. Weekends are for… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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