(188 quotes found)
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”
C.S. Lewis
“Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.”
Albert Einstein
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them”
Voltaire
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins”
Soren Kierkegaard
“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
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder”
George Bernard Shaw
“There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
William Hazlitt
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