Quotes About Power

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle

But when I say free, I mean free: free from bond, of chain or command:to go where you will, even, even to Mordor Saruman, if you desire.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom

Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest

What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.

A library is an arsenal of liberty.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;

The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.