Tyrants Quotes

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.

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.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

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

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

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