#tyrants

The mob is the mother of tyrants. ↗

— Diogenes

#mother #tyrants

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#only #order #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#chains #discovered #fetter #mind #tyrants

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#limits #oppose #prescribed #those #tyrants

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#deny #ever #existed #kill #obsessed

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#apostle #common #down #here #inspired

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. ↗

— William Penn

#governed #men #must #ruled #tyrants

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ↗

— William Penn

#obedience #rebellion #tyrants

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#made #off #offends #played #record

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free. ↗

— Bill Richardson

#been #enlightenment #free #ignorance #salvation