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"Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy." »Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography
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"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." »Edward Abbey
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"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." »Edward Abbey
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"The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others." »Dr. Jose Rizal
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"Taxation without representation is tyranny." »James Otis
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"Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny." »Edmund Burke
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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think." »Hannah Arendt
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"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think." »Hannah Arendt
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"There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful." »Samuel Johnson
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"tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas." »Helen Keller
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"For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends." »Aeschylus
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"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny." »Aeschylus
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"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." »Montesquieu, 1742
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"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal." »William Allen White
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"Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny." »Sophocles
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"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought." »Sir Thomas Beecham
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." »Thomas Jefferson
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"tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." »Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day." »Thomas Jefferson
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"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny." »Bertrand Russell
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"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." »Thomas Jefferson
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"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." »Thomas Jefferson
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"From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Make no mistake about it: Operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war." »Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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"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." »James Fenimore Cooper
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"The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." »Aldous Huxley
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"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended." »Edward R. Murrow, On Winston Churchill, 1954
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"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways." »Bertrand Russell
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"America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society." »Peter Kropotkin
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"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression." »Malcolm X
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