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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. Abraham Joshua Heschel

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Bill Moyers

The big tyrants never face justice.

George Galloway

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

George Santayana

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Voltaire

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Demosthenes

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Benjamin Franklin

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Edmund Burke

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.

William Billings

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

Clarence Darrow

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

Helen Dunmore

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

William Penn

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

John Sterling

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

Charles Caleb Colton

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Jose Rizal

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.

Travis Bradberry

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

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

George W. Bush

Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.

Timothy D. Snyder

If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

Michael Ledeen

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Frederick Douglass

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Diogenes

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

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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

Albert Camus

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

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

Michael Servetus

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

Daniel Defoe

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

Bassem Youssef

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

Henry A. Wallace

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Bill Richardson

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

Charles Caleb Colton

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

Richard Pryor