#tyranny

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#bring #communism #did #down #evil

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

— Pat Robertson

#concerned #i #oligarchy #tyranny

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

— Maximilien Robespierre

#freedom #ignorant #keeping #lies #people

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#altar #eternal #every #form #god

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#dawn #day #enlighten #evil #generally

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. ↗

— Michael Johns

#apparatus #created #forms #history #into

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

— Ice T

#arms #bear #because #defense #form

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

#cease #compromises #could #fact #facts