Quotes About Tyranny

Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

Officially in America we now have a totally arbitrary and limitless government. That is, we have a 'total government.' In short, we've got totalitarian government.

Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!

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

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.

Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies.