Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law and of all sorts of tyranny the forcing of the letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God

There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleepi

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader