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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! -- Samuel Adams
A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe. -- George Herbert
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant... -- Alexander Hamilton
The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead. -- William Blake
But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope. -- Brandon Sanderson
You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies. -- Ambrose Bierce
A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"' -- Steve Williams
Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well. -- Adam Rayner
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day. -- Richard Jefferies
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. -- Bryan Procter
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. -- Thomas Fuller
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. -- Elbert Hubbard
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. -- Voltaire
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. -- Aristotle
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. -- Barbara Tuchman
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. -- Emily Bronte
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. -- Aeschylus
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. -- Plato
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. -- Philip K. Dick
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. -- John Adams
Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts? -- Charles Spurgeon
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. -- Emile M. Cioran
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. -- Plato
Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency. -- David Mamet
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. -- Aldous Huxley
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. -- Aristotle
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. -- Barack Obama
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. -- Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself. -- Charlie Trotter
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Love is a tyrant, resisted. -- John Ford
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. -- Ariel Durant
Love is a tyrant sparing none. -- Pierre Corneille
There's no tyrant like a brain. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop
Let us render the tyrant no aid. -- Frederick Douglass
Love rules the world. Like a tyrant. -- Jarod Kintz
A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt. -- Edward Young
The tyrant is a child of pride. -- Sophocles
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant. -- Philip Sidney
Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart. -- Thomas Otway
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? -- Juvenal
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free. -- George W. Bush
There is no tyrant as merciless as pain. -- Stephen King
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant. -- James Madison
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'. -- C. S. Lewis
Thou tyrant, tyrant Jealousy, Thou tyrant of the mind! -- John Dryden
The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism. -- Derek R. Audette
Who can take Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat. -- Edward Young
God himself has no right to be a tyrant. -- William Godwin
A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war. -- Martin Luther
Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint. -- Neil Gevisser
Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne. -- Philip Slater
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. -- Herbert Spencer
The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny. -- Aesop
Spineless politics do not change the mind of a tyrant. -- Friedrich Kellner
The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong -- rassool jibraeel snyman
I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe. -- Deborah Sampson
There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant. -- Mary Kay Ash
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused -- Virgil
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. -- William Shakespeare
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. -- Henry David Thoreau
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! -- Thomas Paine
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. -- Ambrose Bierce
A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others. -- William Blake
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant. -- James Madison
Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set, -- Werner Herzog
Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me. -- Maria McCann
From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now -- Veronica Roth
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact. -- Twyla Tharp
Cursed greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. -- Virgil -- Debby Grahl
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. -- Aristotle
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. -- Camille Paglia
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer. -- John Calvin
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself. -- Rabindranath Tagore
But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant. -- Mary Renault
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me. -- Henry Flagler
Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant. -- Robertson Davies
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys -- George Orwell
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant. -- Voltaire
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance. -- Muriel Spark
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. -- Dennis Prager
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. -- Emile M. Cioran
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience. -- Patrick Henry
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. -- George Mason
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds. -- Alexander Pope
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. -- Alexander Pope
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. -- June Jordan
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. -- Kate Grenville
Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me -- Mahatma Gandhi
My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us. -- Dennis Wilson
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer. -- Ben Jonson
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. -- Blaise Pascal
A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever! -- Bill Vaughan
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. -- William C. Bryant
Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age. -- Edward Abbey
In buskined measures move Pale Grief and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. -- Thomas Gray
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. -- Henry Fuseli
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane? -- Henry David Thoreau
Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him. -- Lucretia Mott
Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything. -- John Polkinghorne
Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? -- Benjamin Martin
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. -- Emile M. Cioran
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. -- Edgar Wallace
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. -- Thomas Jefferson
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business. -- Benjamin Tucker

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