Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
GovernmentLibertyMilitaryRepublicanismTyranny Overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
FactionalismRevengeDespotismTyranny The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
TyrannyConscienceSilencePower DynamicsInaction All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
CapitalismLibertyTyrannyFortunateUnfortunate Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
CorruptionPower AbuseTyrannyManipulationErosion of Democracy However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
