Tyranny Quotes - Page 6

• From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Iron, Trouble

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.7, Best Books on

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• The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

  Edward Abbey

  Laughter, Distrust, Wit

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Struggle, Tyrants, Desire

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.

  Edgar S. Brightman

  Fear, War, Power

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• The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

  Georg Buchner

  Government, Tyrants, Liberty

  Georg Buchner, Howard Brenton (2013). “Danton's Death”, p.17, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Steve Buyer

  Depression, Men, Crucible

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• I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

  Bliss Carman

  Tyrants, Wish, World

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• I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

  Charles Edison

  Kings, Hate, Play

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• This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

  Aeschylus

  Doe, Sickness, Inherent

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus”

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• Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

  John Dryden

  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.230

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

  Voltaire

  Government, Tyrants, Politics

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• A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Tyrants

  1963 The Presidential Papers, preface.

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• Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

  Pierre Corneille

  Tyrants, Noble, Treachery

  "Character: Émilie". "Cinna" by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene iv, 1641.

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• The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

  David Hume

  Peace, War, Philosophical

  Adam Ferguson, David Hume, David R. Raynor (1982). “Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

  Zell Miller

  Fighting, Tyrants, America

  Zell Miller's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.cbsnews.com. September 1, 2004.

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• Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

  James Otis

  Men, Tyrants, Soul

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

  Pat Robertson

  Tyrants, Oligarchy, Concerned

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• Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

  George Santayana

  Tyrants, Care, Instruments

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.65, Transaction Publishers

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• I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

  George C. Wallace

  Dust, Tyrants, Feet

  First Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 1963.

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• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

  Simone Weil

  Doors, Tyrants, Morality

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.10, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

  Trent Lott

  Tyrants, Lasts, Choke

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• Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Law, Power Corrupts, Ends

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• Taxation without representation is tyranny.

  James Otis

  Tyrants, Taxation Without Representation, Taxation

  Attributed in John Adams, Letter toWilliam Tudor, 29 Mar. 1818. This maxim, which is often quoted as the rallying cry for the American Revolution, has been attributed to Otis's argument against the writs of assistance before the Superior Court of Massachusetts in February 1761. However, there is no contemporary record of Otis using these words. John Adams, in describing the event fifty-seven years later, referred in his letter to Tudor to "Mr Otis's maxim, that 'taxation without representation w

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• This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Tyrants, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (1873). “Macbeth”, p.227

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• Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

  Jacques Delille

  Tyrants, Can Not, Dies

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 825, L'Immortalité de l'Âme, 1922.

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