Tyranny Quotes

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Society's needs come before the individuals needs

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

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

The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.

The face of tyranny Is always mild at first.

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

Our goal must be not peace in our time, but peace for all time.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

Where laws end, tyranny begins.

Tyranny must not prevail.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"