Body Quote by Voltaire

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

— 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, self-appointed,…

— 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 tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

— Edmund Burke

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

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 defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a…

— William Blackstone

“Ultimately, we must turn to the God who is both the One and the Many for the standard of His law. He created to…

— Kevin Swanson

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule…

— Herbert Spencer

If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize…

— Alexander Hamilton