Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

[A] representative of... a government whose Three Graces are Tyranny, Rapacity, Blood.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

Our military men were so bent upon revenge, and so desirous to enrich themselves by making all the Indians slaves that fall into their hands … that it is in vain to represent the cruelty and injustice of such a procedure

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Being rapacious and arrogating subject's goods and women is what above all else ... renders the Prince hateful ... and leaves a mind obstinate to vengeance.

Let's do to Hoover what he does to others.

To robbery, butchery and rapine they give the lying name “government;” they create a desolation and call it peace.

Necessity, the tyrant's plea.

History of Ireland—lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere—no principle, no heroism.

… most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust and diabolical.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the stake.

Every dictatorship creates thousands of smaller dictators who live on for decades.

These ministers will destroy the empire they were called upon to save, before the indignation of a great and suffering people can fall upon their heads, in the punishment which they deserve. I affirm the war to have been a most accursed, wicked, barbarous, cruel, unnatural, unjust, and diabolical-war.

The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?

Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.