Power Quote by James Madison

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

— James Madison

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Tyranny is the exercise of some power over a man, which is not warranted by law, or necessary for the public safety. A people…

— Noah Webster

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

— Joseph Sobran

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody…

— John Locke

Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it…

— Geoff Ryman

“These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man…

— Hannah Arendt

Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as…

— John Locke

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the…

— Voltaire

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

— Howard Zinn