If science produces no better fruits than tyranny. . . I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.
I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.
We don't live in tyrannies, you know, the king doesn't decide what's legitimate, and there's much more freedom than there was in the past.
A nation which enslaves another forges its own chains.
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech. " In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
In more than half the nations of our world, torture certifies that the form of government is tyranny. Only tyranny, no matter how camouflaged, needs and employs torturers. Torture has no ideology.
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.
No nation can say, 'We will capitulate to tyranny rather than accept a speculative fate - to accept an absolute fate in alternative to a speculative one' - no nation can do that.
The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.
There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.
Any kind of religious tyranny concerns me.
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.