#tyrants

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ↗

— George Santayana

#enslave #free #instruments #seldom #their

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. ↗

— John Sterling

#affords #fiercest #lords #our #own

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#god #obedience #rebellion #tyrants

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

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. ↗

— George W. Bush

#fear #freedom #stirs #tyrants

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

Tyrants are willing to commit to anything…including mass murder to maintain their domination over every human being alive. They abuse the lives of the people they are entrusted with by the perverse dictates that they, themselves, would never live by. And they feel justified in this by their own self-righteous elite morality, which sets them high above everyone else in their own minds. You and I, however, are made of quite different stuff. Our words are filled with our true beliefs and backed by the honesty of our actions. We take great pride in not only who we are…but overcoming the struggle it took to make us this way. We are men and women of character…principles…and courage! ↗

— R.G. Risch

#freedom #morality #principles #tyrants #courage

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

— Jose Rizal

#tyrants #where

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#policy #principle #rebels #subjects #tyrants