He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The most tyrannical governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

O! it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

It's no use making peace with tyranny.

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

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

Make men large and strong, and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

It is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.

Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny.

Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.