Citizenry Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

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

— James Madison

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

— Howard Zinn

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

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 is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

— Learned Hand

“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

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

— Edmund Burke

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

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— James Madison

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

— Baron de Montesquieu