“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom”
Charles Peguy
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
“The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny”
Mark Twain
“The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.”
Hugo Black
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
Voltaire