Mob Rule Quotes

• 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.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Class, Suggestions

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

  Walter E. Williams

  Democracy, Liberty, Littles

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Decision, Presidential, Court

  Address to the Nation on Desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, delivered 24 September 1957, Washington, D.C.

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

  Ronnie James Dio

  Fool, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Ronnie James Dio from May 26, 2014

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• Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

  Gloria Steinem

  Democracy, Income, Taxes

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• 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.

  James Bovard

  Father, Equality, Law

  "An Interview with James Bovard". "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org. January 25, 2006.

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• Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

  Plato

  Government, Democracy, Anarchy

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

  Polybius

  Reality, Government, Names

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• 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.

  Polybius

  Passion, Names, Vanity

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• Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

  Howard Zinn

  Patriotism, Form, Tyranny

  "Dissent In Pursuit Of Equality, Life, Liberty And Happiness: An Interview With Historian Howard Zinn". Interview with Sharon Basco, July 3, 2002.

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• 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.

  Doug Casey

  Ties, Democracy, Sake

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• 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.

  Roger Babson

  Religious, Integrity, Patriotic

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• 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

  Democracy, Flags, Constitution

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936.

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

  Unknown

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• 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

  Passion, Anarchy, Personal Freedom

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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

  Plato

  Wise, Watches, Emasculation

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• Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

  James Madison

  Citizens, Assembly, Stills

  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

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

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Sarcastic, Time

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• 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

  Hands, Balance, Influence

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• 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.

  James Montgomery

  Country, Kings, War

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• 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

  Father, Democracy, Exception

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.103, Transaction Publishers

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• 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?

  Gerald Celente

  Baby, Wall, Eric

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