A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised
East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.
Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and 6 million dollars to put one negro in the University of Mississippi. That's a police action, police state action.
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.
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.
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
If a people bent on violence and terrorism have free elections, they will elect leaders bent on violence and terrorism.
The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally opposed to autocratic and oppressive government. This is very, very clear.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.
Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That's why we must expect to have many a defeat before we'll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.
We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
A government that intended to protect the liberty of the people would not disarm them. A government planning the opposite most certainly and logically would disarm them. And so it has been in this century. Check out the history of Germany, the Soviet Union, Cuba, China and Cambodia.
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.
Were we ever to find ourselves living under a totalitarian regime, place no faith in the mercy of your fellow citizens.
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.
