#tyranny

"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind."

"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."

"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade..."

"In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)"

"Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times."

"Some people grow vegetables by day, but I grow shadows by night. Right now my only customer is the US government, but the profit is unbelievable."

"This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."

"Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless."

"Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost."

"... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!"