Against Tyranny Quotes
33 quotes by 26 authors
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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human…
— Libba Bray
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten…
— Strom Thurmond
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Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Let us hope our weapons are never needed -but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An…
— Edward Abbey
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us…
— Samuel Johnson
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We all know that books burn, yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his…
— Gordon Brown
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What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Is the Reformed faith opposed to human rights? Yes, very much so. It is not human rights but Divine law which is the foundation of…
— James B. Jordan
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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny
— Georg Buchner
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My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your…
— Khalil Gibran
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A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
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From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle…
— Steve Buyer
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Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East.…
— Orrin Hatch
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against…
— Salman Rushdie
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What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the…
— William Rehnquist
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[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years,…
— Ronald Reagan
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The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
— Thomas Jefferson
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