#tyra

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. ↗

— James Madison

#liberalism #liberty #tyranny #roman

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#jefferson #opression #tyranny #enlightenment

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. ↗

— Carl Levin

#belief #building #common #common belief #delivering

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#democracy #handle #hard #people #regime

Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them to rise up and fight back like Obamacare - both the abominable legislative monstrosity itself and the tyrannical, corrupt manner by which Obama crammed it through the legislative process. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#back #both #constitution #corrupt #crammed

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#education #power #tyranny #education

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. ↗

— Malcolm X

#defense #freedom #greater #oppression #power

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#any #arisen #assessment #because #calm

Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#comfort #disguised #fist #flocks #his

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

— Zell Miller

#america #believed #democrats #duty #fight