Oppressive Governments Quotes

• An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

  Confucius

  Philosophical, Beer, Government

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• We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Government, Oligarchy, Cartels

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• We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Differences, Government

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, Unjust, Turns

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.235, CUP Archive

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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

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• When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Truth, Knowledge

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.216

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• Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

  C. S. Lewis

  Peace, War, Government

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Religious, Government, Silence

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life And Love, Government, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Self, Competition

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.62, Humanix Books

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• Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

  Walter E. Williams

  Men, Independence, Unalienable Rights

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• Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?

  Manal al-Sharif

  Thinking, Government, Faces

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• Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Use, World

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”

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• What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an oppressor, an oppressive government, it is a murderer - he murders them - the peasant fights in the region of Falcon, for example, where there are military advisers of the U.S.

  Che Guevara

  Military, Fighting, Government

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments.

  Lawrence Wright

  Country, Government, Differences

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• Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Long, Black

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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