The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and… — Plato Copy Share Image
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In Iraq #1 we stayed within U.N. mandates, limited our response, went home after Kuwait was freed - and were censured for… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view:… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
