Top Tyrants Quotes
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
George W. Bush
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
William Penn
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
George Santayana
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke
Benjamin Franklin 
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Clarence Darrow All Tyrants Quotes
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson 
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
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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.
Richard Perle
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Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
Andre Malraux
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Marquis de Sade
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