(48 quotes found)
“Clever tyrants are never punished.”
Voltaire
“One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.”
Marquis De Sade
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants”
William Penn
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
“The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything”
Clarence Darrow
“War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“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
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
William Pitt the younger
“Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.”
“The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.”
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