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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

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

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.

Bill Richardson

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants.

Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Bertrand Barre de Vieuzac

So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men,

Charlton Heston

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Thomas Jefferson

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

William Shakespeare

By luxury we condemn ourselves to greater torments than have yet been invented by anger or revenge, or inflicted by the greatest tyrants upon the worst of men.

Sir William

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Walter Colton

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Voltaire

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Edmund Burke

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

John Sterling

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

George W. Bush

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Bill Moyers

A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions.

Voltaire

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

Albert Camus

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppos

Frederick Douglass

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Voltaire

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

Albert Camus

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

George Santayana

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.

J. Michael Straczynski

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Bertrand Barere