The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's… — Ice T Copy Share Image
The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I would recommend a free commerce both of matter and mind. I would let men enter their own churches with the same… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“BLOODY LIPS The bloody wound Of the gladiator Gurgles out life's end. The cries of acclimations from the stands Fill the sky… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance and one night late it came to… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“They [feminists] share the instinct for tyranny and destruction - and they are filled with self-loathing. In the end, leftist feminists yearn… — Jamie Glazov Copy Share Image
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The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The use of violence is justified only under a tyranny which makes reforms without violence impossible, and should have only one aim,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
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That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
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An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
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It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Snowden is not the disease. We don't have traitors or whistleblowers blooming all over because they are some sort of malady. The… — Lawrence Wilkerson Copy Share Image
We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having. Slavery is peace. Tyranny is peace. For that… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of… — Charles Hummel Copy Share Image
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![“The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.” quote by John Dryden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/274/john-dryden-491_ancestor_the-longest-tyranny-that-ever-sway-d-was_2677048.jpg)
![“They [feminists] share the instinct for tyranny and destruction - and they are filled with self-loathing. In the end, leftist feminists yearn to submit to, and submerge themselves within, a despotic monolith. Because they despise their own society and are bent on its destruction, they cannot…” quote by Jamie Glazov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ff/jamie-glazov-59539_destruction_they-feminists-share-the-instinct-for-ty_991910.jpg)
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