Destroying Quote by Voltaire

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

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they…

— Aristotle

Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men…

— Aristotle

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

— George Santayana

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

— Thomas Jefferson

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

— Emile M. Cioran

“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

Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.

— Lucretia Mott

Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation.

— Walter Savage Landor

Morality is stronger than tyrants.

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

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

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

— Edmund Burke