Tyrants

TYRANT 

From Webster's On Line Dictionary

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"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants." - Albert Camus

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." - Frederick Douglass

"The mob is the mother of tyrants." - Diogenes

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

"Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear." - George W. Bush

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
― Euripides, Orestes

“The tyrant is a child of Pride who drinks from his sickening cup, recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong he plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." - Montesquieu
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"In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."

EUGENE V. DEBS, speech in Canton, Ohio, June 16, 1918

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

PLATO, The Republic

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

BILL CLINTON, remarks at the dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center

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.

ISAAC ASIMOV, Prelude to Foundation

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. But killing one tyrant only makes way for worse, unless the people have sense, spirit and honesty enough to establish and support a constitution guarded at all points against the tyranny of the one, the few, and the many.

JOHN ADAMS, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

BILL WILLINGHAM, Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

BRUCE COVILLE, attributed, Edutocracy: My Time Behind Public Education's Iron Curtain