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“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.”

Country Whole Government America Differences Enemy Involved Responsible Allies Oppressive Governments

Author:Lawrence Wright

“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.”

Self Government Politics Products Competition Forgotten Extremes Enterprise Minorities Elites Frustrated Bureaucracy Taxation Free Enterprise Oppressive Governments

Book:The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”

“Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?”

Government Church Religious Silence Roles Friendly Fulfilling Legitimacy Oppressive Governments

Book:A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

Source: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation

“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.”

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

Government Politics Liberty Libertarian Life And Love Freedom And Liberty Energetic Freedom Liberty Limited Government American Government Eternal Vigilance Government And Society Oppressive Governments

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“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.”

Government Fighting Military Example Murder Regions Murderer Peasants Oppressors Adviser Leftists Falcon Venezuelans Oppressive Governments

Author:Che Guevara

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

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

Knows Wells Long Bigs Government Black Enemy Oppressive Governments

Author:Rand Paul

“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.”

Ifs Men World Use Government Chance Conditions Miserable Ballots Oppressive Governments

Book:No Treason: No. 1-

Source: No Treason: No. 1-

“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.”

“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”

Government Turns Unjust Oppressive Governments

Book:Reflections on the French Revolution

Source: Reflections on the French Revolution

“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.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont

“An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.”

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

Thinking Government Faces Difficult Oppressive Governments

Author:Manal al-Sharif