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Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
Alexander Hamilton
2.
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
Gore Vidal
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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
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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
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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
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The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
Will Self
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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