Clever tyrants are never punished. [ Voltaire ]

Tremble, ye tyrants; ye cannot die. [ Delille ]

Be sure there are domestic tyrants also. [ Thackeray ]

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. [ Anonymous ]

'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. [ Pericles ]

I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years. [ William Shakespeare ]

Like conquering tyrants you our breasts invade.
Where you are pleased to ravage for awhile;
But soon you find new conquests out and leave
The ravaged province ruinate and bare. [ Otway ]

A company of tyrants is inaccessible to all seductions. [ Voltaire ]

Possession makes tyrants of some men whom desire made slaves. [ Brignicourt ]

Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. [ W. Pitt ]

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

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

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. [ Earl of Sterling ]

Logic is the essence of truth, and truth is the most powerful tyrant; and tyrants hate the truth. [ I. I. Kozlof ]

Like other tyrants, death delights to smite what, smitten, most proclaims the pride of power and arbitrary nod. [ Young ]

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. [ William Pitt ]

Time is the greatest of all tyrants. As we go on towards age, he taxes our health, limbs, faculties, strength, and features. [ John Foster ]

Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine. [ Abraham Coles ]

Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex? [ Thackeray ]

Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]

Founders and senators of states and cities, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, fathers of the people, and other eminent persons in civil government, were honored but with titles of worthies or demigods; whereas such as were inventors and authors of new arts, endowments, and commodities towards man's life, were ever consecrated among the gods themselves. [ Bacon ]