Tyrants Quotes
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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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Let tyrants shake their iron rod.
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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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Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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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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How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
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Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators.
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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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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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Socialism was made to order for tyrants.
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...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
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My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.
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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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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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The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of 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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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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Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty.
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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
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Why independence? If the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow.
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"Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.
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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.
