Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke
It is far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than to think. Hannah Arendt
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C S Lewis
There is no crueller tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. Montesquieu
It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy. William Safire
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth. Bill Clinton
In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty. Sir William Blackstone
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. Hannah Arendt