Freedom Quote by Albert Camus

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

— Albert Camus

“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”

— Albert Camus

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

— George Santayana

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men…

— Aristotle

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

— Alan Keyes

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

— Voltaire

Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with…

— Thomas Jefferson

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live…

— C. S. Lewis

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the…

— Alexander Hamilton

The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

— Donald James