Usurpers Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as… — James Madison
A usurper always distrusts the whole world. — Vittorio Alfieri
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers… — James Madison
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may… — Walter Lippmann
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not… — B R Ambedkar
One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. — Alexander Hamilton
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of each citizen is… — 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 by bold presumption. — Thomas Jefferson
Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper. — Michelle Malkin
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper. — Will Self
I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical… — Rufus Wainwright
Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church… — Chinua Achebe
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. — Gore Vidal
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud… — Robert Burns
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents… — Jules Henry

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