Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-06-22 Jun 22, 2004[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.~ Milovan DjilasOf all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.~ John DrydenFreedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.~ John Goodwin Jun 21, 2004The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.~ William Ellery ChanningIt has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.~ Benjamin DisraeliI would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.~ Cato the Younger Jun 18, 2004The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.~ John C. CalhounIt is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.~ W. E. B. Du BoisPolitics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.~ Henry Brooks Adams Jun 17, 2004We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.~ Stewart L. UdallNobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.~ Rudolph J. RummelRogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.~ Alexandre Dumas Jun 16, 2004Hypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.~ Leo Nikolaevich TolstoiLet no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected “radicals” without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity...~ Robert M. Lafollette, Sr.Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print