#tyrant

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued. ↗

— Evan Meekins

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Love is a tyrant sparing none. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Demosthenes

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