Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.
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.
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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.
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.
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.