John Redmond Quotes

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Our democracy has been marred by imperialism.

Most governments are designed for the purposes of oppression and personal ambition.

Republicanism stands for vested rights, for imperialism, for graft, for the annihilation of every semblance of liberty. Its ideal is the oily, creepy respectability of a McKinley, and the brutal arrogance of a [Theodore] Roosevelt.

O kings of the earth! We see you increasing every year your expenditures, and laying the burden thereof on your subjects. This, verily, is wholly and grossly unjust ... do not rob them to rear palaces for yourselves.

We have been told that…Britain is the mother and we are the children, that a filial duty and submission is due from us to her and that we ought to doubt our own judgment and presume that she is right, even when she seems to us to shake the foundations of government. But admitting we are children, have not children a right to complain when their parents are attempting to break their limbs, to administer poison, or to sell them to enemies for slaves?

… the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers.

Human experience long ago taught us that if we allow a man or group of men autocratic powers in government or church, that they use the powers to oppress and defraud the public..

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are ambitious and ruthless enough to gain control of it.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Tyranny Absolves all faith; and who invades our rights, However his own commence, can never be But an usurper.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we'll have when this war is over. Slaves working for us everywhere while we sit back with a fork in our hands and a whip on our knees.

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

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.