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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

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

— Voltaire

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

— Emile M. Cioran

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.

— Richard Jefferies

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

— William Penn

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

— Edmund Burke

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

— Georges Clemenceau

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

— George Santayana

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

— Edward Coke

✗Opposing Perspectives

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

— Voltaire

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

— William Godwin