Tyrants Quotes
520 quotes by 362 authors
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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
— George W. Bush
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The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
— George W. Bush
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by…
— Lord Byron
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus
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While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to…
— Ethan Allen
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or…
— Emile M. Cioran
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When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
— William J. Clinton
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Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.
— Benjamin Franklin
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
— Alexander Hamilton
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The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men.…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
— Bertrand Barere
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Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
— James Madison
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Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
— John Calvin
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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…
— Lydia M. Child
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can…
— Alexander the Great
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Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
— Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe
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Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.
— Rodrigue Tremblay
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