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

All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe

Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Jonathan Mayhew

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
George W. Bush

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Demosthenes

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.
Richard Perle

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
Helen Dunmore

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
Henry A. Wallace

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.
William Billings

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
Michael Servetus

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
John Sterling

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Marquis de Sade