Tyrants Quotes

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

[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.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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.

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.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

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

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.