Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.
Clever tyrants are never punished.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.