Tyrants Quotes

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.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

The big tyrants never face justice.

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants.

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.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

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.

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own

While the people off fighting foreign tyrants generally get the praise of the American public, those who fight American tyrants mostly just get funny looks from their fellow Americans.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.