Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle…goa ts are used for sacrificial… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. — Will Self Copy Share Image
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that... at the moment, he is somebody who is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the… — William James Copy Share Image
I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free!… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
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