Tyrants Quotes

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

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

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

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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

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

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

Clever tyrants are never punished.

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.

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.

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