Truth Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, "he observed, "that he realizes the fearful…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Honesty does not make a man less of a tyrant.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because…

— George Orwell

“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”

— Albert Camus

“His own work within government had taught him that there are virtually no limits to a man’s greed and lust for power and wealth.”

— C.A. Fail

“for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.”

— William J Federer

“The smart tyrant flatters the people with words,while with deeds he destroys them.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“[T]he sovereignty of reason and justice is no more tyrannical than that of desire. They are principles natural to man.”

— Blaise Pascal

“[A]s it is impossible that any man endowed with rational faculties, and being in a state of freedom, should willingly agree, without some motive…

— Henry Fielding

“No man on earth who conscientiously opposes either you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities from…

— Socrates

“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…

— Edmund Burke