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Quotes › Authors › E › Edmund Burke › Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
  • Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

    Edmund Burke: Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
    Edmund Burke
    'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 25
    1670
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