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  • When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

    Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.216
  • Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

  • Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

    Government   Long   Black  
    "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.
  • Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?

    Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
  • Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby ameliorating their condition.

    Men   Use   World  
    Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”
  • I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments.

  • Who do you think is more difficult to face: oppressive governments, or oppressive societies?

  • 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.

    "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.
  • An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

  • I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

    Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.19, Cambridge University Press
  • Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.

    Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.62, Humanix Books
  • Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

    Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.235, CUP Archive
  • Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

    Peace   War   Government  
    C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an oppressor, an oppressive government, it is a murderer - he murders them - the peasant fights in the region of Falcon, for example, where there are military advisers of the U.S.

    Source: guevaristas.org
  • We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

  • We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

    United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY
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