Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.

The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

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.

Tyrants and dictators have incited hatred against ethnic and religious minorities for centuries in order to consolidate power for themselves.

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

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!