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Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. -- Voltaire
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. -- George W. Bush
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. -- Jose Rizal
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. -- George Santayana
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -- Thomas Jefferson
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. -- William Lloyd Garrison
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. -- Jeremy Bentham
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. -- William Penn
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. -- Aristotle
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. -- Frederick Douglass
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! -- Samuel Adams
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. -- Soren Kierkegaard
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. -- Marquis de Sade
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. -- Daniel Defoe
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. -- Emily Bronte
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -- C. S. Lewis
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. -- Plato
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff. -- Richard Pryor
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. -- Walt Whitman
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war -- Plato
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. -- William Hazlitt
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
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
Tyrants seldom want pretexts. -- Edmund Burke
none can be Tyrants but Cowards. -- Mary Astell
Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it. -- David Mitchell
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse. -- Emile M. Cioran
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on. -- James Russell Lowell
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. -- Walter Savage Landor
Tyrants always condemn and seek to replace the market process with government coercion because tyrants do not trust that people behaving voluntarily will do what the tyrants think they should do. -- Walter E. Williams
Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute. -- William Hazlitt
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die! -- Robert Burns
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action... -- Aristotle
It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen. -- John L. DeWitt
Democracy and religion stand or fall together. Where democracy has been destroyed, religion has been doomed. Where religion has been trampled down, democracy has ceased to exist.... Tyrants have come and have had their day and then have passed while religion has survived them all. -- Herbert H. Lehman
Clever tyrants are never punished. -- Voltaire
The big tyrants never face justice. -- George Galloway
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. -- Bill Moyers
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. -- Benjamin Franklin
All men would be tyrants if they could. -- Daniel Defoe
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. -- William Penn
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. -- Bill Richardson
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. -- Frederick Douglass
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. -- Albert Camus
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. -- Abigail Adams
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. -- Henry A. Wallace
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. -- Clarence Darrow
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. -- Christopher Hitchens
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government. -- Lysander Spooner
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force. -- Ben Shapiro
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved. -- Brendan Myers
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. -- Nancy Gibbs
Dreams can be relentless tyrants. -- Morgan Llywelyn
Morality is stronger than tyrants. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
The big tyrants never face justice -- George Galloway
Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Let tyrants shake their iron rod. -- William Billings
That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion. -- H. P. Blavatsky
...the greatest tyrants over women are women. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The mob is the mother of tyrants. -- Diogenes
Socialism was made to order for tyrants. -- James Cook
Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die. -- Jacques Delille
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. -- Seneca the Younger
Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs. -- Victor Hugo
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. -- Jean Racine
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution -- Tony Benn
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects. -- Clarence Darrow
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants. -- Anthony Trollope
Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. -- William Shakespeare
None but tyrants have any business to be afraid. -- Hardouin de Perefixe de Beaumont
Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators. -- Adolf Hitler
My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants. -- Cesare Borgia
Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. -- Benjamin Franklin
I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend. -- William Shakespeare
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy. -- Juvenal
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen. -- Michael Servetus
Those who would be called tyrants cannot be called free men. -- Nathan Huggins
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us. -- Emily Bronte
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. -- Anatole France
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. -- Edmund Burke
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. -- William Ellery Channing
How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. -- William Shakespeare
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? -- J. K. Rowling
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains. -- Patrick Henry
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. -- Juvenal
The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. -- Stendhal
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. -- Bertrand Barere
The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny. -- Donald James
Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty. -- Alan Keyes
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow. -- Jose Rizal
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. -- Demosthenes
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. -- E. M. Forster
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. -- John Sterling
The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled. -- Norman Mailer
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. -- Julien Green
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates
It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee. -- Peter Tatchell
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. -- Herman Melville
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less. -- Tim Ferriss
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. -- Robert Herrick
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. -- Horace
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey. -- C. S. Lewis
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints. -- C. S. Lewis
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants. -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. -- E. Haldeman-Julius
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man. -- Thomas Campbell
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. -- St. Jerome
Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? -- Benjamin Martin
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. -- James F. Cooper
To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place. -- Pope Francis
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. -- Paul Wolfowitz
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject... -- William Graham Sumner

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