The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.

To give pain is the tyranny to make happy the true empire of beauty.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

It's good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said if we don't fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.