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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood… — Winston Churchill
Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live… — Thomas Paine
Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions, create new villains,… — Ravi Zacharias
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their… — Barry Goldwater
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind. — John Dryden
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. — Thomas Paine
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which… — Ronald Reagan
The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples… — Mark Twain
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what… — J M Coetzee
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies. — Weston La Barre
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth,… — John Donne
Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him;… — Samuel Gompers
By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials, the judicial murders,… — Thomas Merton
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. — George Orwell
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
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. — Noam Chomsky
Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my… — Thomas Jefferson
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly… — Joseph Sobran
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the… — Mark Twain
Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority. — William Inge
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed… — Winston Churchill
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them… — Emile M. Cioran
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity… — Thomas Paine

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