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That's good latin in itself, but it makes the tyrant singular and nominative (subject), so that it means something like that's what a tyrant is like (or will be like or should be like). That's not nearly so encouraging a thought, and is not the motto of the state of virginia. I first saw the motto spelled that way.

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Sic semper tyrannis is a phrase with a somewhat problematic history. Some sources have claimed that this was spoken by brutus as he delivered the knife blow to julius caesar. John wilkes booth is likewise said to have claimed the same utterance was made when he assassinated abraham lincoln. Sic semper tyrannis is a latin phrase meaning thus always to tyrants.

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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 the u. s. Sic semper tyrannis, latin for thus unto tyrants, was famously spoken by john wilkes booth following the assassination of president abraham lincoln at fords theater in washington d. c. Booths words harkened back to the assassination of another supposed tyrant two thousand years before, gaius julius caesar.

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