Top Tyrant Quotes
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
William Godwin
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
George W. Bush
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
June Jordan
The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them.
Ramman Kenoun
Marshall McLuhan 
Emily Bronte 
Dennis Wilson 
Ambrose Bierce 
Dennis Prager 
Thomas Jefferson 
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It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.
Douglas Feith 
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
George Byron
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
William Ralph Inge
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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 that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
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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.
Lord Byron
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I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.
Richard Widmark
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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior
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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mohandas Gandhi
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