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- Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- 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
- One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
- A usurper always distrusts the whole world. — Vittorio Alfieri
- If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes,… — Walter Lippmann
- It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising… — James Monroe
- 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
- 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