Top Tyrant Quotes
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire
Dennis Prager 
James Otis 
Plato 
Elbert Hubbard 
George Byron 
Aldous Huxley 
Bertrand Russell 
Douglas Feith 
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Oriana Fallaci 
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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
Elbert Hubbard
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This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emile M. Cioran
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I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
David Warner
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emile M. Cioran
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Georges Clemenceau
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
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