The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

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

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

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

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.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

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.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

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

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

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.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

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.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

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.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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

Taxation without representation is tyranny.