If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Votes: 8
James MadisonTyranny, like fog in the well known poem, often creeps in silently 'on little cat feet.' Votes: 4
Ronald ReaganTyranny of freedom is do what you like. There's a world gone crazy, cause it can't say no. Votes: 4
Bruce DickinsonTyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. Votes: 3
Mark KingwellTyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity. Votes: 3
Jeane KirkpatrickThere are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Votes: 3
Frederick William RobertsonTyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. Votes: 3
Thomas JeffersonTyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves. Votes: 3
Learned HandAll tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Votes: 2
Edmund BurkeMilitary despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteDiscipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos. Votes: 0
Cullen HightowerThe Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. Votes: 0
Christopher HitchensThe best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Votes: 0
VoltaireSilent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement. Votes: 0
C.J. RedwineWe, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsAnd of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. Votes: 0
Daniel DefoeThe miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs. Votes: 0
John C. BogleI fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. Votes: 0
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyMasculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. Votes: 0
AristotleTyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. Votes: 0
George SantayanaI have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another. Votes: 0
Desmond TutuRevolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. Votes: 0
William GodwinWe gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor. Votes: 0
Louis D. BrandeisDemocracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny. Votes: 0
Walter E. WilliamsThe indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women. Votes: 0
Jules MicheletThe function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. Votes: 0
Thomas BeechamFreedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. Votes: 0
Trent LottTime shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. Votes: 0
John ArmstrongThe first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain. Votes: 0
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. Votes: 0
David HumeMake men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherThe purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroPlay matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose. Votes: 0
Jill VialetThe road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. Votes: 0
William J. ClintonI shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny. Votes: 0
Francine du Plessix GrayIf the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist. Votes: 0
Tehyi HsiehIn a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness. Votes: 0
Robert Griffin IIIOf all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority. Votes: 0
William IngeThe fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone. Votes: 0
Orson F. WhitneyModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonIve always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. Votes: 0
Steven Van ZandtThe tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources. Votes: 0
George BrandisI've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. Votes: 0
Steven Van ZandtUnlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins. Votes: 0
William Pitt, 1st Earl of ChathamThere is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it. Votes: 0
P.D. OuspenskyWe cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny. Votes: 0
Cyril Connolly[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.' Votes: 0
Salvador DaliThe means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Votes: 0
James MadisonPower, when invested in the hands of knaves or fools, generally is the source of tyranny ... Votes: 0
Charlotte CharkeApathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny. Votes: 0
Laurence OvermireRepublican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. Votes: 0
Napoleon Bonaparteflight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. Votes: 0
Herman MelvilleAlthough he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers. Votes: 0
Nicholas EberstadtI am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. Votes: 0
Philip PullmanThe combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny. Votes: 0
Milton FriedmanI don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other. Votes: 0
Caitlin ThomasIf you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language. Votes: 0
Andrew CohenThe time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonWhat draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart. Votes: 0
Millicent FawcettThe harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice. Votes: 0
Baron de MontesquieuIt is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. Votes: 0
Stefan MolyneuxThe freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery. Votes: 0
Pope Benedict XVIThe sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny. Votes: 0
Victoria WoodhullIt is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. Votes: 0
Hans-Georg GadamerIt is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny. Votes: 0
Simon Bolivar[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living. Votes: 0
William Carlos WilliamsLaughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart. Votes: 0
Kate ClintonTo achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillWe grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist. Votes: 4 E. B. White
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny. Votes: 5 Ronald Reagan