QUOTATION: The Rule of Bad Men

It is by divine permission that wicked men receive power to rule as a punishment for sin, as the Lord says by the Prophet Hosea (13:11): “I will give you a king in my wrath” and it is said in Job (34:30) that he “makes a man that is a hypocrite to reign for the sins of the people.” Sin must therefore be done away with in order that the scourge of tyrants may cease."

--St. Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship to the King of Cyprus

QUOTATION: Claiming the Right to Kill

To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others

--Pope John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae

QUOTATION: Tyranny

A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

– G. K. Chesterton

QUOTATION: Tyranny

The government of tyrants cannot last long because it is hateful to the multitude, and what is against the wishes of the multitude cannot long be preserved.

--St. Thomas Aquinas, The Governance of Rules, 1, 10