Best Usurpers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.”

Long Has Beens Chance My Own Fate Stupid Habit Victory Calling Revenge Arrogance Freak Thrones Despotism Bad Habits Interpreting Pretender Usurpers

Author:Yukio Mishima

“The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that... at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.”

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Author:Alan Keyes

“But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.”

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.”

World Reason Opinion Twenties Queens Ashes Usurpers

Book:A Philosophical Dictionary

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary

“Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short against the gates of earth and hell.”

Earth Hell Rights Mankind Kings British Priests Gates Tyrants Ancestor Inherent Arbitrary Usurpers

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.”

Men Country States United United States Land Crime Red Shame Israel Indian American Indian Invaders Usurpers

Author:Bobby Fischer

“Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.”

Way Firsts Eye Age Choices Streets Tolerance One Way Iron Amendments Fists First Amendment Usurpers

Author:Michelle Malkin

“The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.”

Enemy Novelists Usurpers

Author: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 terms.”

Sides Term Musical Track Imposter Dilettantes Usurpers

Author: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 or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.”

Humans States Spirit Church Party Threat University Congress Champion Storyteller Human Spirit Mosques Usurpers

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”

Divine Succeed Patriot Emperor Traitor Usurpers

Author: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 usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die!”

Pain Dies Fall Liberty Son Proud Lows Lays Blow Oppression Chains Tyrants Woe Veins Foe Drains Your Son Usurpers

Author: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 to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!”

Ifs Way Children Social Parent Business Judgment Function Mere Advertising Our Time Parental Degrading Insolent Usurpers

Author:Jules Henry

“Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.”

Hands Liberty Enemy Lays Tyrants Usurpers

Author: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 well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting Usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.”

Source: The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison

“Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.”

Dies Liberty Blow Usurpers

Author:Robert Burns

“A usurper always distrusts the whole world.”

World Whole Trust Whole World Distrust Usurpers

Author: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 not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them . . . the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.”

“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 be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.”

People Ifs May Law Power Higher Vote Sovereign Counting Pretender Usurpers Higher Law

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“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 is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“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 it my be found. No man can reign innocently. The folly is too evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper. Do kings themselves treat otherwise those who seek to usurp their authority?”

People Men Found Secret Revolution Kings Authority Treats Blind Missions Folly Justify Rebel Reign Evident Monarchy Outrage French Revolution Usurpers

Author: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 in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.”

People Mean Moments Law Blood Cold Terror Chosen Destructive Tyrants Select Legislators Usurpers

Book:The Social Contract

Source: The Social Contract

“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 lions.”

Used Lost Struggle Rights Conscience Appeals Lions Offering Relentless Usurpers

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.”

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Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.”

Rights Citizens Resistance Patriot Usurpers

Author: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 determined by the natural division of work and by the choice he makes of a profession, if the social functions are combined in such a way as to produce a harmonious effect, order results from the free activity of all men; there is no government. Whoever puts a hand on me to govern me is an usurper and a tyrant; I declare him my enemy.”

“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.”

Government Political Politics Economy Knowing Virtue Ignorance Cold Commerce Calculations Statesmen Presumption Political Economy Knowing Nothing Cold Blooded Usurpers

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence