— Alan O. Ebenstein American political scientist, educator and author 1959
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
Frame of Government (1682)
Kontext: I know what is said by the several admirers of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, which are the rule of one, a few, and many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject. But I chuse to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
— Alan O. Ebenstein American political scientist, educator and author 1959
Hayek's Journey: The Mind of Friedrich Hayek (2003)
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
Remarks by President Obama and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma in Joint Press Conference at Aung San Suu Kyi Residence in Rangoon, Burma on November 14, 2014 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/14/remarks-president-obama-and-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-joint-press-confe
2014
„There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law.“
— Montesquieu French social commentator and political thinker 1689 - 1755
As quoted in With Prejudice : The Perspective of an Acquitted Defendent (2010) by Vicky Gallas; no earlier occurence of this phrasing has been located (Relevant quote: "Il n’y a point de plus cruelle tyrannie que celle que l’on exerce à l’ombre des lois et avec les couleurs de la justice" i.e. "There is no tyranny more cruel than that which is exercised within the shade of the law and with the colours of justice." See Chap. XIV of Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence).
Disputed
— Stephen A. Douglas American politician 1813 - 1861
Speech in Chicago, Illinois http://www.bartleby.com/251/1002.html (9 July 1858)
1850s
— Warren E. Burger Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986 1907 - 1995
Reported in The Episcopalian: Volume 138 (1973), p. 12.
Indictment of Socialism (#3) http://debs.indstate.edu/b262b3_1914.pdf, transcript of Barnhill-Tichenor Debate on Socialism (1914)
This quote is often erroneously attributed to Thomas Jefferson
— Garry Kasparov former chess world champion 1963
Part III, Endgame, p. 195
2000s, How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
— Alfred de Zayas American United Nations official 1947
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas 2013 Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
2013
— Barrett Brown American journalist, essayist and satirist 1981
The Guardian, "Anonymous: a net gain for liberty" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/27/anonymous-internet, 27 January 2011.
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
Barack Obama: "Address to the Ghanaian Parliament in Accra, Ghana," July 11, 2009. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=86395&st=&st1=
2009
Kontext: As I said in Cairo, each nation gives life to democracy in its own way and in line with its own traditions. But history offers a clear verdict: Governments that respect the will of their own people, that govern by consent, and not coercion, are more prosperous, they are more stable, and more successful than governments that do not. This is about more than just holding elections; it's also about what happens between elections. Repression can take many forms, and too many nations, even those that have elections, are plagued by problems that condemn their people to poverty. And no country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves, or if police can be bought off by drug traffickers. No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top, or the head of the port authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. This—that is not democracy; that is tyranny, even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there. And now is the time for that style of governance to end. In the 21st century, capable, reliable, and transparent institutions are the key to success: strong Parliaments; honest police forces; independent judges; an independent press; a vibrant private sector; a civil society. Those are the things that give life to democracy, because that is what matters in people's everyday lives.
— Samuel Adams American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher 1722 - 1803
The Rights of the Colonists (1772)
— Alan Keyes American politician 1950
Reception in Winder, Georgia, September 11, 2003. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/03_09_11reception.htm.
2009
— Rufus Choate American politician 1799 - 1859
Speech before the New England Society (22 December 1843)
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The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.
Junius, Letter xxxv (19 December 1769)
It established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.
George Bancroft on Calvinism, in History of the United States (1834), Vol. III, Ch. vi.
Oh, we are weary pilgrims; to this wilderness we bring
A Church without a bishop, a State without a King
Anonymous poem "The Puritans' Mistake", published by Oliver Ditson (1844).
— William Harcourt British politician 1827 - 1904
Speech in Oxford town hall (30 December 1872), quoted in The Times (31 December 1872), p. 5
— Arthur Stanley Eddington British astrophysicist 1882 - 1944
Science and the Unseen World (1929)
Kontext: To those who have any intimate acquaintance with the laws of chemistry and physics the suggestion that the spiritual world could be ruled by laws of allied character is as preposterous as the suggestion that a nation could be ruled by laws like the laws of grammar.<!--V, p.54
— Fethullah Gülen Turkish preacher, former imam, writer, and political figure 1941
"Fethullah Gulen: Powerful but reclusive Turkish cleric", 2014