Famous Quotes | If we must have a tyrant, let...
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.
- George Gordon Noel Byron
Attribution: George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824), British poet. letter, Feb. 21, 1820, to publisher John Murray. Byron’s Letters and Journals, vol. 7, ed. Leslie A. Marchand (1973-1981).
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