May Quote by James Otis

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

— James Otis

The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but…

— James Madison

“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

“Tyrants are willing to commit to anything…including mass murder to maintain their domination over every human being alive. They abuse the lives of the…

— R.G. Risch

“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his subjects to…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who will not…

— William Penn

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or…

— John Adams

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a…

— William Blackstone

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

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

A tyrant is most tyrant to himself

— George Herbert

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

— Patrick Henry