I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization however imperfect against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice ' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

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.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny never to trust one's friends.

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.

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.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion if there is one and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind tyranny in religion is the worst.

Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it and this I know my lords: that where law ends tyranny begins.

In my opinion the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are at the same time poetry criticism narrative drama etc.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

Peace without justice is tyranny.

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

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates ' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

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.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

It's not tyranny we desire it's a just limited federal government.