Usurpers Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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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
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A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
— Vittorio Alfieri
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
— Alexander Hamilton
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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
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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
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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
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The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
— Will Self
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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
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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
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Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
— Gore Vidal
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Usurpers Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Usurpers Quotes as follows: