Begins Quote by John Locke

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

— Henry Fielding

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny…

— William Pitt

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they…

— James Madison

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put…

— John Locke

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

— John Locke

..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and…

— John Locke

It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as is Nadine…

— Julie Bindel

“The claim that order is freedom or that freedom is order ends in tyranny.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The long arm of the law ends in the pimp hand of justice.”

— Peter O'Brien

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . .…

— Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the…

— Frederic Bastiat