“In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.”
Albert Einstein
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
Voltaire
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
Thomas Jefferson
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.”
Bob Beauprez
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.”
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience”
Albert Camus