#tyrant

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#from time to time #liberty #must #patriots #refreshed

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#better #brutal #consequences #making #perhaps

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them. ↗

— Carl Levin

#belief #building #common #common belief #delivering

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. ↗

— Barack Obama

#agents #around #been #decades #denied

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#bring #civil #civil war #created #dilemma

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#entering #eternal #eternal world #i #i think

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#tyrants #where

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ↗

— Samuel Adams

#meaning #meaning of #pervert #plain #strangely

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. ↗

— John Adams

#doubted #flea #hang #kill #more

Let tyrants shake their iron rod. ↗

— William Billings

#rod #shake #their #tyrants