Memorable Quotes About Criticism Of Kings

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
William Shakespeare (Henry IV, Part 2)
"Kings will be attended, And when they are not, look for troubles."
William Shakespeare (Henry VIII)
"It is a King's part to protect freedom; it is a people's part to protect the King's freedom to protect them."
Bernard Shaw
"The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me."
William Shakespeare (Henry V)
"Kings should be judged by their deeds."
Queen Elizabeth I
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
Charles de Montesquieu
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
Thomas Jefferson
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"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
Thomas Jefferson
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
Thomas Jefferson
"Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."
Thomas Jefferson
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
Benjamin Franklin
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
Benjamin Franklin
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
Benjamin Franklin
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Lord Acton
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Peter Drucker
"Every monarch is mainly a tool in the hands of his courtiers."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
John Locke
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
Woodrow Wilson
"A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
Plato
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."
Helen Keller
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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
Voltaire
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Voltaire
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Denis Diderot
""Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.""
William Shakespeare
""Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.""
Edmund Burke
""It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.""
William Shakespeare
""The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.""
Thucydides
""Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.""
Thomas Jefferson
""Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.""
Lord Acton
""It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.""
Voltaire
""He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.""
Martin Luther King, Jr.
""In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.""
Thurgood Marshall
""The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.""
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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""No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.""
Abraham Lincoln
""Resistance to tyranny is service to God.""
Thomas Jefferson
""The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.""
Friedrich Nietzsche
""When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.""
Thomas Jefferson
""I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.""
Thomas Jefferson
""Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.""
C.S. Lewis
""The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.""
Thomas Jefferson
""Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.""
Abraham Lincoln
""Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.""
John F. Kennedy
""It is the nature of power to assuage apprehension; to banish care and fright and uncertainty; to substitute, for the irksome burdens of thought, the convenience of inaction.""
Abraham Lincoln
""The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness… This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.""
Plato
""Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.""
George Washington
""Kings should be judged by results.""
Confucius
""The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.""
John C. Calhoun
""A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.""
Niccolo Machiavelli
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