(207 quotes found)
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
Plato
“The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth”
Bill Clinton
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.”
Frederick W. Robertson
“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”
“Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.”
Blaise Pascal
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins”
Soren Kierkegaard
“The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.”
Oscar Wilde
“The United States remains the last best hope for a mankind plagued by tyranny and deprivation. America is no stronger than its people -- and that means you and me. Well, I believe in you, and I believe that if we work together, then one day we will say, "We fought the good fight. We finished the race. We kept the faith." And to our children and our children's children, we can say, "We did all what could be done in the brief time that was given us here on earth."”
Ronald Reagan
