Clever tyrants are never punished.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The big tyrants never face justice.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
The offender never pardons.
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.
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.