Tyranny Quotes

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home" "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" "The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments" "The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny" "Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds." "Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think." "The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes" "Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called." "I believe that 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 usurpations " "One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny" "Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent" "Any excuse will serve a tyrant" "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. " "Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny"