#tyra

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent. ↗

— Bob Riley

#away #budding #democracies #due #half

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#fraud #hypocrisy #mercy #things #three

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. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#democracy #erosion #home #jefferson #know

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#bring #communism #did #down #evil

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#concerned #i #oligarchy #tyranny

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#freedom #ignorant #keeping #lies #people

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#essentially #inalienable #law #man #rights

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#being #government #land #laws #namely

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free. ↗

— George W. Bush

#free #iraq #tyrant