Mob Rule Quotations

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

In vain these economic royalists 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.

Democracy is mob rule with income taxes.

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.

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

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.

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

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