Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
William Penn

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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Bill Moyers

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
Michael Ledeen

The big tyrants never face justice.
George Galloway

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

The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Diogenes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke

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

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