tyranny

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. This is the most basic key to my life.

The social contract known as 'The Constitution' has been null and void since the last person who signed it, died. Even then, it was only ever applicable to the men who signed it. That's how contracts work.

Public awareness is the equinox of tyranny__ rise; once one man learns of another__ captivity, he will act to free him. It is the best and most certain part of man__ nature.

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another.

What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution is traduced.

He said to people: you__e free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and they called him a tyrant and, as soon as he__ been betrayed, they milled around a bit like barn-bred chickens who__e seen the big world outside for the first time, and then they went back into the warm and shut the door...

Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly __ree_ state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.