#tyrants

Clever tyrants are never punished. ↗

— Voltaire

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

— Frederick Douglass

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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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Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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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

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Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. ↗

— Bill Moyers

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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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Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them. ↗

— George Santayana

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