(207 quotes found)
“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
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
Thomas Jefferson
“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.”
Socrates
“Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them”
George Santayana
“I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
George Wallace
“Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.”
Sidney Hook
“Tyranny is always better organized than freedom”
Charles Peguy
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience”
Albert Camus
“Where law ends, tyranny begins”
William Pitt the younger
