Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Yes, citizens, Iturbide was a traitor, a hypocrite and an impious man who destroyed the assembly in which the people had deposited their sovereignty in order to appropriate it all to himself

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

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

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

Emperor Napoleon is nothing but an ordinary king who tramples on human rights.

Which is better, to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile away?

The more a regime claims to be the embodiment of liberty the more tyrannical it is likely to be.

The sacred right of self government … has been so perverted so that if one man decides to enslave a second man, a third man may not object.

'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

It is a favorite maxim of despotick power, that mankind are not made to govern themselves.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.