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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Quote by John Adams about criminals, nation, rightness

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Quote by Aeschylus about friendship, heart, end

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Quote by Aesop about tirany

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing...

Quote by Aristotel about religion, saints, gods, god

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Quote by Aristotel about guvernement, people

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Quote by George W. Bush about fear

The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

Quote by George W. Bush

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about fall, affair

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

Quote by Albert Camus about politics, people

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Quote by William Godwin about rightness, god

The only tyrant in the world that I could ever accept is my own consciousness.

Quote by Mahatma Gandhi about conscience, world

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

Quote by William Penn about man, god

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

Quote by William Penn about god

Destiny a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about destiny, authority, failure, crime, criminals

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Quote by Oliver Goldsmith about love, commerce, friendship