Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, while communists believe that it is possible to socialize everything without tyranny.
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war.
most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those in authority must know what they are doing, and must be describing our condition to us as it really is; they still take it for granted that somehow what is, what is done, must make sense, can't really be insane. These assumptions exercise a tyranny over their minds.
I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
I think to be cut off from your heart is the greatest tyranny in the world.
When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.
Sometimes. . . we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.
There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
The discussion which was made by Luther, Melancthon, and the other persons who preceded the Reformation, opened the eyes or the public; and they got rid of the delusions which had been spread by the Pope of Rome, and emancipated mankind from the spiritual tyranny they were under, and brought about the establishment of that religion which we now enjoy in this country.