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Usurpers Quotes

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

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

Alexander Hamilton
Rights, Citizens, Usurpers

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

Gore Vidal
Usurpers, Succeed, Patriot
FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jul 21, 2016

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.

Voltaire
Queens, World, Usurpers
Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Vittorio Alfieri
Trust, World, Usurpers
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 197), 1922.

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.

Rufus Wainwright
Track, Musical, Usurpers
"Rufus Wainwright: 'I am somewhat imprisoned by my fabulous career'". Interview with Fiona Sturges, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2012.

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

Robert Burns
Blow, Liberty, Usurpers
'Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn' (1799)

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

Will Self
Enemy, Novelists, Usurpers
"Incidents along the road" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. February 06, 2009.

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Political, Usurpers, Language

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.

Alan Keyes
Office, President, Usurpers
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann', www.nbcnews.com. February 20, 2009.

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