George W. Bush Quotes, Tyrants Quotes, Intention Quotes

Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?

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Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

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Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

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The tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

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The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.

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In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

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[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

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The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

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Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people, and making himself necessary to them as their leader.

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Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

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To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

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Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

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A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

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A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

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The tyrant claims freedom to kill freedom, and yet keep it for himself.

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