#tyrants

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

— Marquis de Sade

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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear. ↗

— George W. Bush

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

— Paul Wolfowitz

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

— Edmund Burke

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

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