“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
Voltaire
“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
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.”
“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
“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
