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  • If you listen to fools... The Mob Rules!

    Mob Rule   Fool   Ifs  
    FaceBook post by Ronnie James Dio from May 26, 2014
  • You heard Eric 'Kiddie' Cantor say that he was afraid of mob rule down on Wall Street. Oh, you're afraid, little cutie baby? How about going down there yourself and walking through the crowds?

    Baby   Wall   Mob Rule  
  • The government will take the fairest of names, but the worst of realities--mob rule.

  • The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.

    Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
  • In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936.
  • The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule.

    Passion   Names   Vanity  
  • It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

    Funny   Sarcastic   Time  
  • Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

  • Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

    Wise   Mob Rule   Watches  
  • Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

  • Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

  • Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

  • The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

    Father   Equality   Law  
    "An Interview with James Bovard". "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org. January 25, 2006.
  • Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

    "Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn". Interview with Sharon Basco, July 3, 2002.
  • The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

    Men   Class   Mob Rule  
  • We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”
  • Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

    Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.103, Transaction Publishers
  • Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

    Ties   Democracy   Sake  
  • Mob rule can not be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.

    Address to the Nation on Desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, delivered 24 September 1957, Washington, D.C.
  • Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.272, Coventry House Publishing
  • We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because we are heavily taxed, and only the king's corporations control this Country, together with mob rule, of the special interests.

    Country   Kings   War  
  • Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

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