Jon Stewart Quotes

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now

I hate to say it but I was glad when they shot him. I don’t believe in terrorism or assassination but he could have become the American dictator.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Mobutu was mainstream Africa. Every independent African Government was a one-party state at the time. None allowed opposition. Every one of them had rent-seeking political leaders. The only thing that set Mobutu apart was how ostentatious his theft was.

Tyrants of our day are the most dangerous preachers of liberty.

Despotism, be it financial or political, is vulnerable, unless it is believed to rest upon a moral sanction.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

When an upstart dictator in the United States (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, when the ballot is useless, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.

The Jacobins, finding themselves unable to manage their business on the questions in the House, have adopted a plan of meeting in divan and agreeing on measures to be pursued and passed in the House and then they vote in mass without admitting any alteration in the plan proposed. The wickedness of such a course has never been equalled.... [T]he spirit is intolerant and must lead to ruin.

One Hundred and Seventy Three Despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

... timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.

Stalin is too brutal. His powers should be taken away from him.

If the national government falls into the hands of sufficiently unprincipled men, they can do terrible things before any one can stop them.

The whole administrative, judicial, and legislative machinery obeys a single will, the caprice of General Porfirio Diaz, who during his long administration has shown that the principal motive that guides him is to maintain himself in power and at any cost.

... a consolidation of unchecked and despotic power in the House of Representatives ...