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
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass 
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Charles Caleb Colton
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With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe
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Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Jonathan Mayhew
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
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