#tyranny

In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. ↗

— Robert Welch

#balances #checks #elaborate #feature #form

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. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#drive #every #heart #him #human

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. ↗

— David Hume

#beaten #heights #popularity #power #road

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. ↗

— David Cameron

#approaches #baltic #banished #been #churchill

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity. ↗

— Charles Edison

#any #charles #desire #field #go

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

— Plato

#arises #democracy #dictatorship #extreme #form

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#fraud #hypocrisy #mercy #things #three

But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#democracy #erosion #home #jefferson #know

My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#democracy #experience #fear #having #lived

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. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#communism #conformity #death #making #organization