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I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. — Karl Popper

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle.

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

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government. — Patrick Henry

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

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. — Thomas Jefferson

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

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 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 mind
Persuades 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

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire

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