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Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.
How can tyrants safely govern home, Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency.
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.
Remember that it is not by a tyrant's words, but only by his deeds that we can know him.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.
The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.