The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel… — James Otis Copy Share Image
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We always think we are right, and - search as I have - there is no evil under the sun that somebody… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The heroes in paganism correspond exactly to the saints in popery, and holy dervises in MAHOMETANISM. The place of, HERCULES, THESEUS, HECTOR,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It is said by Bush men and women that we fought (the Iraq War) to strike against terrorism - except that Iraq… — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
