Victor Hugo Quotes

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Across the region, those rights that we take for granted are being claimed with joy by those who are prying loose the grip of an iron fist.

Our liberty cannot depend on the good intention of those in power.

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.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

I would not like a king who could obey.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

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.

The price of freedom is less than the cost of repression.

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 man has received from nature the right to give orders to others.

Bad as despotism is, doomed as it is to work its own ruin, the first fruits of its overthrow are not love and liberty.

Liberty without equality is a name of noble sound and squalid result.

Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.