Tyrants Quotes
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Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!
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Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.
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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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When I despair, I 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.
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Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
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If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
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I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
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Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat secretly of the affairs of a nation have it absolutely under their authority; and as they plot against the enemy in time of war, so do they against the citizens in time of peace.
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Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.
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History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.
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Socialism was made to order for tyrants.
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He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
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There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
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...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
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Voters in a so-called democracy may depose tyrants or crooks in isolated cases but they cannot give birth, full grown like Minerva, to honest and experienced statesmen to take their places.
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My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
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Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.
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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
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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.
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The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
