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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.” — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by… — Georges Danton Copy Share Image
The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that… — Louis XIV Copy Share Image
“On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy,” Burke wrote in the Reflections, “which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“What is remarkable in Burke’s first performance,” wrote his great nineteenth-century biographer John Morley, “is his discernment of the important fact that behind the… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Burke argued that political parties were not, as many people insisted, factions each contending for its own particular advantage, but rather were bodies of… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Believe me, sir,” he writes in the Reflections, “those who attempt to level never equalize. In all societies consisting of various descriptions of citizens,… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Burke was not a sentimentalist, however.43 “Leave a man to his passions,” he wrote, “and you leave a wild beast to a savage and… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“The idea of forcing every thing to an artificial equality has something, at first view, very captivating in it,” Burke writes. “It has all… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“The middle layers of society, where people see each other face to face, offer a middle ground between radical individualism and extreme centralization. Our… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“The experience of seeing differences of dogma made moot in practice by the bonds of family affection and neighborly respect was formative for him.… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“The government of human beings, he argued, is a matter not of applying cold rules and principles, but of tending to warm sentiments and… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
