All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” — from the debate on the recharter of the Bank Bill (1809)

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.