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“E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king.”

Should Force Kings Empires Tyrants Eloquence Roi

Author:Blaise Pascal

“"Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.”

People Looks Law Church Kings Tyrants Dictator Magna Carta

Author:Stanley Baldwin

“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.”

Ought Kings Please Profit Lists Tyranny Tyrants

Author:Aristotle

“It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.”

Thinking Seems Order Views History Teaching Kings Essentials Mathematics Point Of View Tyrants Plato Geometry Unwise True Wisdom Plato S Good Kings Syracuse

Book:History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed - Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by one above.”

Men Dream America Strong Land Kings Tyrants Dreamer Schemes Crushed

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940

“Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short against the gates of earth and hell.”

Earth Hell Rights Mankind Kings British Priests Gates Tyrants Ancestor Inherent Arbitrary Usurpers

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and honourable part of the same society hate and refuse monarchs, tyrants, oppressors and any kind of autocrats!”

Want Kind Hate Kings Conscious Refuse Ignorant Educated Unconscious Tyrants Dictator Oppressors Monarchs Despots

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Formerly, when a king died at Versailles the reign of his successor was immediately announced by the cry: "The king is dead, long live the king", in order to make it understood that despotism is immortal! Now an entire people, moved by a sublime instinct, cried: Long live the Republic! to teach the universe that tyranny died with the tyrant.”

People Long Order Universe Teach Cry Kings Understood Died Moved Instinct Tyranny Immortal Republic Tyrants Cried Reign Sublime Despotism Successors Versailles

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.”

Language Kings Democrat Spokes Tyrants John Paul John Paul Ii Commoners

Author:Chris Matthews