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

- George Santayana

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

- Oliver Goldsmith

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

- Michael Ledeen

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

- Marquis de Sade

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

- John Sterling

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

- Jose Rizal

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

- Helen Dunmore

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

- Henry A. Wallace

The big tyrants never face justice.

- George Galloway

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

- George W. Bush

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

- Abigail Adams

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

- Frederick Douglass

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

- Edmund Burke

All men would be tyrants if they could.

- Daniel Defoe

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

- Diogenes

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

- Christopher Hitchens

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

Saddam, as most tyrants, was a total control freak. He wanted total control of his regime. Total control of the country. And to introduce a wild card like Al Qaeda in any sense was just something he would not do.

- Bob Simon

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

- Bill Moyers

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

- Albert Camus