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A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but… — Calvin Coolidge
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
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. — Calvin Coolidge
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive… — James Madison
The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in… — James Madison
The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more… — James Madison
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole… — James Madison
The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished… — Alexander Hamilton
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce… — Abraham Lincoln
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to… — James Madison
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which… — Ronald Reagan
I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. — Thomas Jefferson
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the… — Abraham Lincoln
Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot. — Alexis de Tocqueville
... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. — Emma Goldman
Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the… — John Burroughs
The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples.… — John F. Kennedy
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological pasts can reach… — Daniel J. Boorstin
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
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein
Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is… — R. R. Reno
Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred. — Unknown Author
A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would… — Leopold Kohr

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