tyranny

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

The people__ silence is a tyrant__ greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

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.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.