Ifs Quote by James Otis

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison,…

— James Otis

“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 tyrant is most tyrant to himself

— George Herbert

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

— Voltaire

A Tyrant is most tyrant to himselfe.

— George Herbert

“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

The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority.…

— Noah Webster

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill

As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often…

— Wayne Dyer

“Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Can tyrants but by tyrants conquered be”

— George Gordon Byron

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

— Patrick Henry