Arms Quote by Georges Danton

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

— Edmund Burke

“Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.”

— Edmund Burke

Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.

— Robert Herrick

No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

“In many cities, tyrants were able to seize power by offering to protect the poorer citizens against the rich or vice versa. “Tyrant” is…

— Alan Ryan

I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.

— Henry Flagler

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve…

— Richard Jefferies

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a…

— Aristotle

A tyrant is most tyrant to himself

— George Herbert

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

— Plato

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

— Patrick Henry

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