tyrants quotes

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

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

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.