Unlimited power corrupts the possessor; and this I know, that, where law ends, there tyranny begins.
Lord Chatham
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire
Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson
Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.
George W. Bush
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins
Soren Kierkegaard
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them
Voltaire
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce
A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions.
Voltaire
Sometimes we must fight terror with tyranny.
George Walker Bush