#tyrants

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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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

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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

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

— Bill Richardson

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Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. ↗

— John Sterling

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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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One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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Let tyrants shake their iron rod. ↗

— William Billings

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