“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
Thomas Paine
“Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.”
James Q. Wilson
“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
M. Grundler
“He who wants to safeguard His liberty, needs not only to shield His own, but He must shield His enemy's. For He who intrudes on His enemy's liberties, becomes equivalent to the one He escaped from.”
Anthony I. Lane
“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.”
Napoleon Bonaparte