Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
Our laws are ultimately all that protect us from tyranny, and before them we are all equal - prime ministers and private citizens alike.
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
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.
In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.