#tyrants

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

— Albert Camus

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With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

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

— John Sterling

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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. ↗

— Demosthenes

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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

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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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