Government tyranny quotes:

Send

To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny. -- Ronald Reagan
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
The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want to embrace the idea we want people to take to the streets with guns. I want people to go to the voting booth and check an out of control government by electing conservatives. -- Lindsey Graham
The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people from religion; that amendment was written to protect religion from government tyranny. . . But now we're told our children have no right to pray in school. Nonsense. The pendulum has swung too far toward intolerance against genuine religious freedom. It is time to redress the balance. -- Ronald Reagan
Now I realize it's fashionable in some circles to believe that no one in government should encourage others to read the Bible. That we're told we'll violate the constitutional separation of church and state established by the Founding Fathers and the First Amendment. The First Amendment was not written to protect people and their laws from religious values. It was written to protect those values from government tyranny. -- Ronald Reagan
Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against that because worrying about government tyranny is the exact sort of thing that will get you audited. Or, when Obamacare is in full force, it will be the attitude that gets you denied life saving health care. So have faith in government. Or it will get you. -- Frank J. Fleming
Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master! -- Thomas Jefferson
The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up. -- Milton Friedman
Traditionally, Africans hate governments. They hate tyranny. -- George Ayittey
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. -- Georg Buchner
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. -- Alexander Hamilton
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. -- Voltaire
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. -- Maggie Gallagher
I've always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. -- Steven Van Zandt
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality. -- Beau Willimon
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
Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government. -- B. R. Ambedkar
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote. -- Todd Akin
It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted. -- Lysander Spooner
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
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible. -- Steve Stockman
The whole structure of African government, as far back as we know, was based on tyranny. One guy ran the show. Chiefs like Chaka and Mzilikazi committed terrible atrocities. That is the tradition from which modern African rulers spring. It won't change easily overnight. -- Wilbur Smith
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives. -- Robert A. Heinlein
For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own. -- Joe Biden
Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom. -- Joseph J. Lhota
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny -- Georg Buchner
The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. -- Aristotle
Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry. -- Thomas Jefferson
Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny. -- Steven Van Zandt
Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy. -- Ludwig von Mises
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. -- Edward Abbey
I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. -- Karl Popper
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
If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State. -- Benjamin Tucker
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
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
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it. -- Mark Levin
In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny. -- Albert Einstein
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government. -- Bob Schaffer
When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that's tyranny. -- Mark Levin
The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government. -- Paul Craig Roberts
Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical. -- Joseph Sobran

Send