By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free!… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
"Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“In many cities, tyrants were able to seize power by offering to protect the poorer citizens against the rich or vice versa.… — Alan Ryan Copy Share Image
And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity… — Peter Abelard Copy Share Image
Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor.… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
The president, who finds so much to complain about in other areas of the world, apparently saw nothing wrong in recognizing a… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
No tyranny is more cruel than the one practised in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice - when,… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Since bad men find the rule of kings no less burdensome than that of tyrants, the recognition of the right of private… — William Archibald Dunning Copy Share Image
More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not affairs… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But… — Caryl Churchill Copy Share Image
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life… — David Walker Copy Share Image
. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
![“They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!” quote by Lydia M. Child](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57b/lydia-m-child-9261_burned_they-slaves-have-stabbed-themselves-for_1319174.png)
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