Government Quote by Thomas Jefferson

It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

— Plato

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

— Milton Friedman

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 yielding to the lust of the governing.

— John Fletcher

The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people…

— Thomas Jefferson

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain

Democracy is better than tyranny.

— Periander

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

— Jacob Burckhardt

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as…

— William Shakespeare