tyrants

Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.

Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.

History has seen many who claim to be deliverer and saviour of the people. They might come with force and violence and parade their might and splendour as conquerors. The pharaohs of Egypt, Sennacherib king of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Darius of Persia, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Napoleon, Clive of India, Bismarck, the Kaiser, Hitler, Stalin. The story and scene is always the same. They claim to deliver the people from bondage and to establish justice, freedom and peace. They come in might, riding in splendour, dragging prisoners.

Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.

It is blasphemy to call tyrants and oppressors, God__ ministers. They are more properly the messengers of Satan to buffet us. No rulers are properly God__ ministers, but such as are just, ruling in the fear of God

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.