The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial rulers, and they looked to God for deliverance from the tyranny of their pharaoh, George III.
International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.
Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
He had been someone before. That person had been the result of a lifetime of choices, good and bad. And like it or not, he was drawing closer to that identity now. Not the freedom of infinite variety, but the tyranny of a decision made, a path walked, a life lived. What if he didn't like the view
Power without authority is tyranny.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
The terrible tyranny of the majority.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.