The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of t...
The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are Go...
It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men's marriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize and segregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a few great hygienists might enclose or limit the life o...
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Peace without justice is tyranny.
Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these op...
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidit...
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
Justice without mercy is tyranny
Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
If secrecy is the beginning of tyranny, declassification is its apotheosis.
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that ty...
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
