Tyrants Quotes - Page 7

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

A Jap's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty... This coast is too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast except on a permit from my office.

No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.

Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations.

[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby they resist his power.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

The big tyrants never face justice.

Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven and keep the society of such an infamous tyrant.