There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Read Summary
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Read Summary
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. Read Summary
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Read Summary
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Read Summary
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Read Summary
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. Read Summary
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations. Read Summary
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain. Read Summary
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. Read Summary
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Read Summary
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. Read Summary
When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Read Summary
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. Read Summary
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. Read Summary
I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation. Read Summary
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own. Read Summary
Corruption is just another form of tyranny. Read Summary
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. Read Summary
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Read Summary