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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

Quotes by William Pitt

Peace without justice is tyranny.

Quotes by William Allen White

The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

Quotes by Walter Gropius

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

Quotes by Walter Bagehot

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

Quotes by Trent Lott

I do not have a 10-point plan or a formula for reversing our accelerating slide into tyranny. But any fool can see what doesn't work and what has no chance of success.

Quotes by Tom Tancredo

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Quotes by Todd Akin

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Quotes by Thomas Paine

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Quotes by Susan B. Anthony

I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

Quotes by Steven Van Zandt

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Quotes by Stephane Hessel

Colonel Qaddafi's tyranny was absolutist, monarchical, and personal. The problem with such dictatorships is that as long as the tyrant lives, he reigns and terrorizes.

Quotes by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Quotes by Sidney Hook

I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for someone who's in the military. This is not for law enforcement. This is for us. And, in fact, when you read that Constitution and the Founding Fathers, they intended this to stop tyranny.

Quotes by Sharron Angle

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Quotes by Samuel Butler

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.

Quotes by Samantha Harvey

The original settlers in Iceland were the nobles of Norway who left their native land to avoid the tyranny of Harold Fairhair, who tried to crush their power so as to make himself a despotic king in the land.

Quotes by Sabine Baring-Gould

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

Quotes by Rowan Williams

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Quotes by Pierre Corneille

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

Quotes by Phillip E. Johnson

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

Quotes by Peter Fenn

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Quotes by Pericles

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

Quotes by Pat Robertson

Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.

Quotes by Orlando Jones

Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.

Quotes by Orrin Hatch

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

Norman Mailer

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Quotes by Montesquieu

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Quotes by Montesquieu

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.

Quotes by Montesquieu

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Quotes by Mohammed Omar

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Quotes by Mike Crapo

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Quotes by Michael Novak

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Quotes by Michael Johns

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence.

Quotes by Michael Ignatieff

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Quotes by Maximilien Robespierre

The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants. Pro-Bitcoin advocates want protection against tyrants, too. The difference is how these two groups define tyranny.

Quotes by Max Keiser

In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.

Quotes by Marcy Kaptur

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Quotes by Maggie Gallagher

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Quotes by Ma Jian

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

Quotes by Lysander Spooner

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.

Quotes by Joshua Wong

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Quotes by Jonathan Sacks

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Quotes by Jon Ronson

We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.

Quotes by John R. Allen

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

Quotes by John Hay

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Quotes by John Dalberg-Acton

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Quotes by Joe Biden

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Quotes by Jim Gerlach

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Quotes by Jeremy Bentham

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

Quotes by Jean-Claude Duvalier

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Quotes by James Otis

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

Quotes by James Otis

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Quotes by James Madison

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Quotes by James Madison

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

Quotes by James H. Douglas, Jr.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Quotes by James Fenimore Cooper

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Quotes by James Fenimore Cooper

Electorally, the number of women who want to wear a burka is insignificant, yet it is important to defend such a minority against the tyranny of the majority.

Quotes by Jacob Rees-Mogg

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

Quotes by Jack Lew

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence.

Quotes by Hisham Matar

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

Quotes by Henry Miller

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Quotes by Henry James Sumner Maine

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Quotes by Henry Fielding

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

Quotes by Henry Brooke

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Quotes by Hannah Arendt

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.

Quotes by Ginny Brown-Waite

Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.

Quotes by Gina Miller

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

Quotes by George Wallace

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

Quotes by George Washington

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Quotes by George William Russell

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

Quotes by George Ayittey

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

George Bernard Shaw

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

Quotes by Georg Buchner

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Quotes by Franz Kafka

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Quotes by Frances Wright

Well, the tyranny of masculinity and the tyranny of patriarchy I think has been much more deadly to men than it has to women. It hasn't killed our hearts. It's killed men's hearts. It's silenced them; it's cut them off.

Quotes by Eve Ensler

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Quotes by Ethan Allen

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

Quotes by Eskinder Nega

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

Quotes by Ernestine Rose

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Quotes by Emily Greene Balch

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Quotes by Edmund Burke

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Quotes by Edmund Burke

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

Quotes by David Hume

The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim.

Quotes by David Ignatius

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

Quotes by David Cameron

We must heed the call of action and, with courageous steps and humble hearts, work against tyranny.

Quotes by Dana Loesch

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

Quotes by Crystal Eastman

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.

Quotes by Condoleezza Rice

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

Quotes by Clara Zetkin

Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority points of view. They hated the idea of unilateral power. And wanted to force advocates and policy makers, through structure and process, to compromise.

Quotes by Charlie Baker

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Quotes by Charles Peguy

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Quotes by Charles Edison

If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.

Quotes by Cesare Beccaria

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

Quotes by Carl Levin

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