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I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
— Karl Popper
It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.
— Eric Robert Morse
If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.
— Benjamin Constant
Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.
— David Limbaugh
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When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others
— Jocelyn Murray
We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices ... Government has to make those choices for people.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
Equality cannot be imagined outside of tyranny.
— Charles Forbes Rene De Montalembert
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
— Edward Abbey
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
— Rose Wilder Lane
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.
— Benjamin Tucker
All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.
— Steven Van Zandt
Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard
— Hank Quense
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
— Alexander Hamilton
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
— Charles Peguy
We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.
— Julius Nyerere
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
— Maggie Gallagher
The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
— Beau Willimon
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.
— Thomas Jefferson
When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state. — Euripides
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
— Edward Abbey
Grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.
— John Clare
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
Poverty is bad,but so is decadence.
Tyranny is bad,
but so is chaos.
Injustice is bad,
but so is godlessness. — Matshona Dhliwayo
It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?
— David Eddings
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep.
— Stefan Molyneux
When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
— Jacob K. Javits
Liberty may make mistakes but tyranny is the death of a nation.
— Giacomo Matteotti