Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.
Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
