Tyrants Quotes

520 Tyrants quotes by 357 unique authors

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
No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially those who are the worst of us. Some of the… — Jim Butcher
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power. — Walter Raleigh
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. — Thomas Jefferson
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. — Bryan Procter
An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an… — Albert Einstein
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could… — Patrick Henry
It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and made it the… — Ronald Reagan
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to… — Alexander Hamilton
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people,… — Alexander Hamilton
Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the… — Abraham Lincoln
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and… — Howard Zinn
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being… — Eugene V. Debs
Love is a tyrant sparing none. — Pierre Corneille
No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not… — Harry Belafonte
Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily denote quality, content or value. [If]… — Harry Belafonte
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. — Aldous Huxley
What kind of tyrant punishes everyone just to get back at the few he's mad at? I mean, besides Chris Christie. — Bill Maher
Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on… — George W. Bush
There is only one force of history that can break the reign of hatred and resentment and expose the pretensions of tyrants and reward the… — George W. Bush
Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a… — Henry David Thoreau

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