The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny but to rouse them from lethargy and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

It's not tyranny we desire it's a just limited federal government.

When any government or any church for that matter undertakes to say to its subjects This you may not read this you must not see this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

They know the importance of their mission and of America's commitment to combating and defeating terrorism abroad and they know that they are making a real difference in bringing freedom to a part of the world that has known only tyranny.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny a new oppression.