Tyranny sayings | Tyranny quotes | Tyranny mottos
Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. - Lord Moulton
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. - Alexander Pope
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field... - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. - Oscar Wilde
In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. - Aeschylus
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. - Lord Byron
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - Thomas Jefferson
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. - Samuel Johnson
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. - John F. Kennedy
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. - Soren Kierkegaard
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