Tyrants Quotes

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

Time, Liberty, Blood

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin

God, Against, Obedience

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus

Welfare, Particular, Alibi

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire

Before, Support, Virtue

Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire

Clever, Punished

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass

Endurance, Limits, Whom

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

Love, True, Care

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

God, Men, Governed

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

Men, Power, Remember

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

Policy, Principle, Kings

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

Freedom, Fear, Everywhere

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke

Seldom, Pretexts

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke

Heart, Minds, Nor

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
Jose Rizal

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

Strong, Made, Themselves

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

Ignorance, Free, Salvation

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
William Penn

God, Obedience, Rebellion

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana

Free, Tyranny, Cares

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

Men, Lost, Give

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Charles Caleb Colton

Mind, Chains, Discovered

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

Technology, Said, Star

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

Work, Made, Off

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers

Freedom, Dream, Secrecy

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Lyn Nofziger

Time, Liberty, Blood

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

Why, Afraid, Save

The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Diogenes

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
Andre Malraux

Love, Time, History

The big tyrants never face justice.
George Galloway

Justice, Big, Face

All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe

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