Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [241-260] of 443 Oppression quotesOppression QuotesOppression Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics." When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy hypocrisy.~ Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.~ Abraham Lincoln The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.~ Walter Lippmann The Natural Liberty of Man is to be free from any Superior Power on Earth, and not to be under the Will or Legislative Authority of Man, but to have only the Law of Nature for his Rule.~ John Locke If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.~ John Locke Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.~ John Locke If you look like a rabbit, and act like a rabbit, you will be treated like a rabbit -- prey for all predators.~ Stony Loft Because law enforcement resources have been concentrated on the street drug trade in minority communities, drug arrests of minorities increased at 10 times the rate of increase for whites.~ Los Angeles Times Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of opinion.~ James Russell Lowell True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free.~ James Russell Lowell Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.~ James Russell Lowell The liberty of the people, he says, whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty. [Lat., Libertas, inquit, populi quem regna coercent, Libertate perit.]~ Lucanus To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.~ Lord George Lyttleton Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.~ Niccolo Machiavelli A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.~ James Madison If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty.~ James Madison In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.~ James Madison The internal effects of a mutable policy are [...] calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.~ James Madison Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print