tyranny

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.