Quotes About Tyranny

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.