Oppression of Citizens Quotes

Instead of useful members of the state, they [ministers] ought to be considered enemies of the community, ... and very justly deserved to be punished with signal severity .

To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any pretext, however flimsy, and put to death with horrible tortures. No government pretending to be civilized can go on condoning such atrocities. Either it must make every possible effort to put them down or it must suffer the scorn and contempt of Christendom.

This government is effectively telling the American people to go to Hell.

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

No longer must government be allowed to ride roughshod, absorbing the people's wealth, usurping their rights, and crushing their spirit.

It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

Congress, factious, domineering, tyrannical Congress has undertaken to poison the minds of the American people, and create a feeling against me in consequence of the manner in which I have distributed the public patronage.

The State lives by its very existence on the two-fold and pervasive employment of aggressive violence against the very liberty and property of individuals that it is supposed to be defending.

These are strange times when American citizens are to be assailed under cover of a message to Congress for exercising their inalienable right of the discussion of the policies and acts of the Administration. If this liberty is taken from us, what is left of the democracy of which we boast? What better are we than Russia?

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.