#tyrants

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

— Demosthenes

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

— Michael Ledeen

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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

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

— Abigail Adams

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Let tyrants shake their iron rod. ↗

— William Billings

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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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All men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. ↗

— Albert Camus

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Frederick Douglass

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