Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For Freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle… — John Quincy Adams
The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well. — Michael A. Ledeen
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. — Demosthenes
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. — Jonathan Mayhew
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. — June Jordan
God himself has no right to be a tyrant. — William Godwin
It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had… — Douglas J. Feith
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. — Barbara Tuchman
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne. — Georges Clemenceau
I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against… — Karen Hughes
We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to… — Jay Rockefeller
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of… — Tim Bishop
Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to… — Lajos Kossuth
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. — William Henry Harrison
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of… — Daniel De Leon
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu
The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance… — Ron Chernow
People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you… — Michelle Shocked
Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get… — Bob Uecker
Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother. — Frederick Douglass
A Jap's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty... This coast is too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast… — John L. DeWitt
Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action… — Erich Fromm
But they don't use law-they use law for their interests. They don't go by law, international, federal, local-nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to… — Malcolm X
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of… — Isaiah Berlin
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has… — Edward Said

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