Tyrants Quotes

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

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

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

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

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

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

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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.

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

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.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

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

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

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

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

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

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.

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

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

The big tyrants never face justice.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

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

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

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

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

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

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.