The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson American President More Thomas Jefferson Quotes 3
[Y]our national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. Frederick Douglass American Abolitionist More Frederick Douglass Quotes 1
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 0
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. Daniel Defoe English Journalist More Daniel Defoe Quotes 0
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. Demosthenes Greek Statesman More Demosthenes Quotes 0
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass American Author More Frederick Douglass Quotes 0
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. Oliver Goldsmith Irish Poet More Oliver Goldsmith Quotes 0
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. Benjamin Franklin American Politician More Benjamin Franklin Quotes 0
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. Abraham Joshua Heschel Polish Educator More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes 0
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Christopher Hitchens American Author More Christopher Hitchens Quotes 0
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Lyn Nofziger More Lyn Nofziger Quotes 0
Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. Richard Perle American Public Servant More Richard Perle Quotes 0
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn English Leader More William Penn Quotes 0
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. Andre Malraux French Author More Andre Malraux Quotes 0
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. Marquis de Sade French Novelist More Marquis de Sade Quotes 0
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. George Santayana American Philosopher More George Santayana Quotes 0
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. Henry A. Wallace American Vice President More Henry A. Wallace Quotes 0
In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. Yevgeny Yevtushenko Russian Poet More Yevgeny Yevtushenko Quotes 0
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. Charles Caleb Colton English Writer More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes 0
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. George W. Bush American President More George W. Bush Quotes 0
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 0