"Thus always to tyrants" redirects here. For the album, see Thus Always to Tyrants (album).
Sic semper tyrannis is a Latin phrase meaning "thus always to tyrants". In contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown. The phrase also suggests that bad but justified outcomes should, or eventually will, befall tyrants.
It is the state motto of Virginia.
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Sicsempertyrannis is a Latin phrase meaning "thus always to tyrants". In contemporary parlance, it means tyrannical leaders will inevitably be overthrown...
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state flag in the U.S. depicting a form of toplessness. The motto Sicsempertyrannis means "Thus always to tyrants." The flag may be decorated with a...
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United States, including four of the first five. The state's motto, SicSemperTyrannis, translates from Latin as "Thus Always to Tyrants", and is used on...
President's box to the stage, where he raised his knife and shouted "Sicsempertyrannis". (Latin for "Thus always to tyrants," attributed to Brutus at Caesar's...
shirt at that time with a picture of Abraham Lincoln and the motto sicsempertyrannis ('Thus always to tyrants'), the supposed words shouted by John Wilkes...
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Sicsempertyrannis! ("Thus always to tyrants") either from the box or the stage, witness accounts conflict.: 739 Most recalled hearing Sicsemper tyrannis...
[still] breathing, I hope"); Virginia's Sicsempertyrannis ("Thus always to tyrants"); and West Virginia's Montani Semper Liberi ("Mountaineers [are] always...
the Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 44 BC. Booth famously shouted "Sicsempertyrannis!" during the assassination. Tyrannicides have a poor record of achieving...
Assassination Ford's Theater Our American Cousin opera John Wilkes Booth "Sicsempertyrannis" Petersen House Funeral and burial Lincoln catafalque Lincoln Tomb...
Assassination Ford's Theater Our American Cousin opera John Wilkes Booth "Sicsempertyrannis" Petersen House Funeral and burial Lincoln catafalque Lincoln Tomb...
Assassination Ford's Theater Our American Cousin opera John Wilkes Booth "Sicsempertyrannis" Petersen House Funeral and burial Lincoln catafalque Lincoln Tomb...
Assassination Ford's Theater Our American Cousin opera John Wilkes Booth "Sicsempertyrannis" Petersen House Funeral and burial Lincoln catafalque Lincoln Tomb...
and hung an effigy bearing the Governor's face and a sign reading sicsempertyrannis ("thus always to tyrants") from a tree. The event drew condemnation...
Lincoln wrote to Thurlow Weed on March 4, 1865, "on the recent Inaugeral [sic] Address. I expect the latter to wear as well as—perhaps better than—any...
morning using a truck bomb. McVeigh wore a printed T-shirt with Sicsempertyrannis ("Thus always to tyrants")—what according to legend Brutus said as...
was a guest in Lincoln's box, and leaps onto the stage, shouting, "SicSemperTyrannis! The South is avenged!" before escaping into Maryland. A crowd, including...