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Here are the quotes with the word tyrant in them. Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. — Matthew Prior If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. — Lord Byron

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

-Matthew Prior

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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

-Lord Byron

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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

-Barry Cornwall

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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

-Ambrose Bierce

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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

-Plato

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Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

-Thomas Fuller

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Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

-Elbert Hubbard

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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

-Barack Obama

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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

-Friedrich August von Hayek

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Every one with this writ may be a tyrant if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.

-James Otis

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

-Aristotle

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

-Bertrand Russell

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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

-Aeschylus

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A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

-Aldous Huxley

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. — Matthew Prior
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. — Lord Byron

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