Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. …

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

Les habiles tyrans ne sont jamais punis.

An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, - Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn, - mud from a muddy spring, - Rulers who n…

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.