Benjamin Franklin Quotes

He seized the lightning from Heaven and the scepter from the Tyrants.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes

No one can go on being a rebel too long without becoming an autocrat.

They (tyrants) should be attacked, not as ordinary enemies, but as assassins and rebellious brigands. Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they may be, are slaves in revolt against the sovereign of the land, who is the human race, and against the legislator of the Universe, who is Nature.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand…. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.

Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where does it go after it leaves the toaster?

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

The tyrant is only the slave turned inside out.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

The limits of tyrants are proscribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

Mexicans!... It would appear that justice had fled from this world, leaving you to the caprice of your oppressors, who have become each day more furious toward you.... My part is taken, the voice of revelation whispers ... that the Lord will enable me, with powerful arm, to fight against our enemies.