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

— Edmund Burke

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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All men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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The mob is the mother of tyrants. ↗

— Diogenes

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

— Voltaire

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Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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