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Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The U.S. does not care, at all, whether a foreign country is ruled by democracy or tyranny. It cares about one question and one question only: whether the government of that country serves or hinders U.S. interests. Donald Trump’s sin was admitting this obvious fact.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.

The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world’s garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword’s point… We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

We will seek to lift the tyrannical sanctions imposed by America.

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call ‘injustice.’

How can a country [the United States] that counts the Saudi monarchs, the Egyptian military junta, the Qatari slave owners, and the Emirati dictators as its closest partners and allies possibly claim with a straight face that it opposes tyranny and fights wars in order to protect democracy?

Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can’t make laws. And if we accept the notion that their dictates are law, then we have not only submitted to tyranny, we have abandoned a republican form of government.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny’s the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

Why should I fear death?If I am, then death is not.If Death is, then I am not.Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.Religious tyranny did domineer.At length the mighty one of GreeceBegan to assent the liberty of man.

To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.