History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Tyrants and dictators will accept no other gods before them. They require disobedience to the First Commandment. They seek absolute control and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
There is no land like England, Where'er the light of day be; There are no hearts like English hearts, Such hearts of… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless… — Julia Ward Howe 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
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
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
In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue,… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter when. Tyrants have been regarded as wicked since olden times, but the twentieth century is full of the tyrants… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Your Bracelet," she said. "Acheronta movebo.' It doesn't mean 'Thus always to tyrants.' That's 'sic semper tyrannis.' This is from Virgil. 'Flectere… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I killed you once", the Lord Ruler said, turning back to Kelsier. "You tried", Kelsier replied, his voice loud and firm, carrying… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching… — James Forten Copy Share Image
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted… — Sheikh Abdullah Copy Share Image
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
