Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
I would rather be my own tyrant than have someone else tyrannize me.
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.
It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor. . . the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.
Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
Love is a tyrant sparing none.
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens Reason, confounds discretion; deaf to Counsel It runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.
The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.