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Tyranny Quotes

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.

Tyranny Bear Right Defense Against

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Tyranny Multitude

The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants. Pro-Bitcoin advocates want protection against tyrants, too. The difference is how these two groups define tyranny.

Constitution America Tyranny Want

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Democracy Violence You Tyranny Way

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

History Tyranny Inevitable Nothing

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

Jordan Peterson

Think Hell Tyranny Civilization Out

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

Together Fight People Tyranny Race

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Democracy Slavery Tyranny Liberty

When an American government takes on characteristics that elevate the state above the individual, it must be vigorously opposed as a form of, or step toward, tyranny.

Government Step American Tyranny

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Democracy Tyranny Dangerous Citizen

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James Fenimore Cooper

Men Law Opinion Tyranny Vice Masses

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.

Tomorrow Feet Tyranny Now Say Line

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Nature Law Tyranny Will Reason Ever

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

Today Freedom War Tyranny Dwell Our

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

Respect Opinion Prison Tyranny Out

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

Live People Me Violence Tyranny

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

Trust Friends Tyranny Never Disease

The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

Fear Tyranny Growing Will Out Myth

Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.

Religion Tyranny Oppression Out Tool

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Think Tyranny Act Far Easier Than

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Legal Tyranny Bad Worst Laws Sort

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Brave Independence Tyranny New Birth

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Maximilien Robespierre

Freedom People Tyranny Ignorant Lies

I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

Steven Van Zandt

Government Tyranny Always Earn Out

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