#tyra

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#give #humane #i #lost #men

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical. ↗

— Henry George

#alone #destructive #methods #necessarily #one act

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist. ↗

— Carl Levin

#afghanistan #armed #armed forces #attacks #courageous

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#good #may #most #oppressive #sincerely

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. ↗

— Trent Lott

#easily #established #lasts #never #once

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

— James Madison

#become #danger #defense #foreign #historically

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

#enemy #fighting #foreign #guise #land

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#democracy #discovers #far #go #how

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. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#certainly #doubt #engine #leave #lodged

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#been #despair #end #fall #history