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Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.
Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.
Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.
Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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.
A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.
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.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.
Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason.
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.
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.
There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.
Dictators from the past, tyrants, were not unaware that it is easier to govern and enslave a nation of drinkers than that of abstainers.
Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.
There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.
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.
The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.