Tyrants Quotes

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That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace… — Jeff Cooper
When your little child tells a lie, do not rush at him as though the world were about to go into bankruptcy. Be honest with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself. — Rabindranath Tagore
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful… — Cato the Younger
Unanimity of opinion may be fitting for a church, for the frightened or greedy victims of some (ancient, or modern) myth, or for the weak… — Paul Feyerabend
Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools. — E. Haldeman-Julius
To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they… — Jonathan Mayhew
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government… — Ibn Taymiyyah
Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years… — Michael A. Ledeen
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people,… — Aristotle
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages. — E. M. Forster
Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his. — William Lloyd Garrison
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! — Thomas Paine
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds… — Sarah Josepha Hale
Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant. — James Madison
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages. — Alexis de Tocqueville
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest. — William Shakespeare
Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical. — Joseph Sobran
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

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