#tyrants

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

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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

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#freedom #secrecy #tyrants

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

— Demosthenes

#excessive #free #good #security #states

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well. ↗

— Michael Ledeen

#evil #full #iran #iraq #knew

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers. ↗

— Richard Perle

#does #example #few #for example #france

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#poets #russia #their #tyrants #worst

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#could #hands #husbands #into #men

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#could #left #men #nature #tyrants

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ↗