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The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.
My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.
Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.
Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys
The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!
Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest.
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn't bring that up to me.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him.
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.