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Tyrant Quotes by Winston Churchill
- [Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant…
- Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a…
More Tyrant Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a… — John Adams
- How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
- Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. — Ambrose Bierce
- In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. — Aeschylus
- Any excuse will serve a tyrant. — Aesop
- The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte
- The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free. — George W. Bush
- If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let… — Lord Byron
- In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. — Emile M. Cioran
- The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either… — Emile M. Cioran