25 result(s) for Tyranny Quotes.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are."
"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants."
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning."
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"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy is openness."
"In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."
"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."
"When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty."
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
"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, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
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"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."
"It is the function of the patriot to protect his country from its government."
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither."
