#tyrants

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#extinguished #heart #keeps #minds #moderation

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

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bad #crushes #deplore #kills #loss

All men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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The mob is the mother of tyrants. ↗

— Diogenes

#mother #tyrants

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#only #order #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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