Quotes about tyrants
tyrants vision tyranny
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact. Twyla Tharp
tyrants
God himself has no right to be a tyrant. William Godwin
tyrants ignorant democracy
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. Walter Lippmann
tyrants government politics
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire
tyrants law sovereign
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
tyrants reign yoke
Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke. William C. Bryant
tyrants earth palaces
Tyrants never perish from tyranny, but always from folly,-when their fantasies have built up a palace for which the earth has no foundation. Walter Savage Landor
tyrants balance fool
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool. Winston Churchill
tyrants enemy worst
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts. William Ellery Channing
tyrants
...the greatest tyrants over women are women. William Makepeace Thackeray