“For Muslims, the season of hajj is the season of pride and glory in the eyes of God’s servants, the season of enlightening hearts, the season of humility before the Creator and of solemn prayer. Hajj is a heavenly, earthly, divine and communal obligation....During this unparalleled obligation, tempo…”— Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, english.khamenei.ir
“The world needs to know what happened in that desert. And to know what he stands for. How far will he take his power. Does he act by our will, or by his own.”— David S. Goyer, Chris Terrio, Senator Finch, Holly Hunter, imdb.com
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”— Ronald Reagan, presidency.ucsb.edu
“I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.”— Ronald Reagan, presidency.ucsb.edu
“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her... He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective to the franchise. He has compelled her t…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, en.wikipedia.org
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“I lamented therefore the Impolicy, tyranny, and Injustice, which with a Sovereign Contempt of the People of America, studiously neglected to take their Collective Sentiments of the British proposals of Peace, and to negotiate under a suspension of Arms, for an adjustment of differences, as a dangero…”— Benedict Arnold, teachingamericanhistory.org
“And we recently discovered, if it was not known before, that no amount of power can withstand the hatred of the many.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero, perseus.tufts.edu
“What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of those ma…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and t…”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“No tyrant or usurper can ever invade our rights so long as we are united. Let Mr. Lincoln attempt it, and his party will scatter like chaff before the storm of popular indignation which will burst forth from one end of the country to the other. Secession or revolution will not be justified until leg…”— Sam Houston, en.wikiquote.org
“The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a Communist regime that has killed more people in its short history of control over the teeming millions of that great country than any other collection of dictators or tyrants…”— Barry Goldwater, newspapers.com
“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 w…”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“We swapped the tyrant 3,000 miles away for a handful of financial slaveowning overlords who make the tyrant of Great Britain seem mild.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, davar.net