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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
My big ambition was to be Richard Petty.
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
There's no room for petty grievances in politics.
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
When it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.
Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Men are separated by so many petty things.
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
How can tyrants safely govern home,
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
When you are actually powerful, you don't need to be petty.
The singular man is singular in comparison to other men, but a companion of Heaven. So it is said, the petty man of Heaven is a gentleman among men; the gentleman among men is the petty man of Heaven.
Most of the nations around the world are led by tyrants and dictators and thugs who are leading their countries for one reason.
You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.
You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
My secrets are petty but humiliating.
Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.
If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
I don't really sweat the petty things.
