The hand of vengeance found the bed To which the purple tyrant fled; The iron hand crushed the tyrant's head, And became a tyrant in his steadWilliam BlakeThe Grey Monk
Tyrants seldom want pretextsEdmund Burkeletter to a Member of the National Assembly
Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they couldDaniel DefoeThe History of the Kentish Petition
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streetsW.H. AudenEpitaph on a Tyrant