Tyrants Quotes

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

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

The big tyrants never face justice.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.

We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against tyrants.

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.

A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains.

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

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

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

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.

Love is a tyrant, resisted.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

Let us render the tyrant no aid.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Bad men cannot make good citizens.

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."