Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles. — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny in chaos, fire breathes new life. And when all is gone, the ashes may rise. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism. — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
A weekly column is not always a treat. It can be a tyranny. There are times when I have very little to… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive,… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves.… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
