Tyranny Quotes - Page 36

• A lot of people died fighting tyranny. The least I can do is vote against it.

  Carl Icahn

  Fighting, People, Vote

  "Hertz is on its Way to a New Driver" by Simon Lack, www.businessinsider.com. August 25, 2014.

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• I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Iraq, Driven

  Attributed to George Bush by Nabil Shaath in a TV documentary "Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs", news.bbc.co.uk. October 06, 2005.

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• The worst law is better than bureaucratic tyranny.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Law, Worst

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

  Philip Pullman

  Reading, Writing, Democracy

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

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Government, Gains, Firsts

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• If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and . . . try freedom.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Black, Trying

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.290, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves. And since a tyrant never lacks instruments for his tyranny, Tiberius always found judges ready to condemn as many people as he might suspect.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Tyrants, Color, Law

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• What many of those who oppose the use of juries in civil trials seem to ignore is that the founders of our Nation considered the right of trial by jury in civil cases an important bulwark against tyranny and corruption, a safeguard too precious to be left to the whim of the sovereign, or, it might be added, to that of the judiciary.

  William Rehnquist

  Law, Important, Use

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• An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.

  David Frum

  Usa, Tyrants, Iraq

  David Frum (2003). “The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush”, p.164, Random House

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• In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Isreal was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tyranny and unrest.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Men, Israel

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• What's more to do,
  Which would be planted newly with the time,
  As calling home our exiled friends abroad
  That fled the snares of watchful tyranny,
  Producing forth the cruel ministers
  Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
  Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
  Took off her life; this, and what needful else
  That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace
  We will perform in measure, time, and place.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Home, Self

  William Shakespeare (1866). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Comprising His Dramatic and Poetical Works”, p.281

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• We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is oppressing us.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  White, House, Enemy

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• The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Limits, Problem

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• Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my prayers & efforts shall be cordially distributed to the support of that we have so happily established. It is indeed an animating thought that, while we are securing the rights of ourselves & our posterity, we are pointing out the way to struggling nations who wish, like us, to emerge from their tyrannies also. Heaven help their struggles, and lead them, as it has done us, triumphantly thro' them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, War, Struggle

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.116, Rowman & Littlefield

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• 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.

  Joseph Sobran

  Government, Evil, Nazism

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• [The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

  Laurence Tribe

  Rights, Government, People

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• Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

  Zach Wamp

  Hate, War, World

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• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  Natan Sharansky

  Successful, Optimism, Democracy

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• The enemy is a very good teacher.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Teacher, Enemy

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• The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Suicide, Class, Giving

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• Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.

  Ludwig Lewisohn

  Men, Democracy, Majority

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• The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

  Walter Lippmann

  Exercise, May, Live Free

  Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.145, Transaction Publishers

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• The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fool, Results, Planets

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• If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

  Samuel Adams

  Land, Why Not, Produce

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• While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.

  Aesop

  Enemy, Toil, Easier

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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