Letter to Sir Horace Mann (7 September 1743)
“Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, Address to the American People on the Situation in Little Rock (1957)
“A hungry mob is an angry mob.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry), from the album Natty Dread (1974)
Song lyrics
“Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
“A mob is still a mob, even if it's on your side.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Adams as portrayed in the HBO Miniseries John Adams (2008); this has sometimes been cited as having been actually said or written by the historical John Adams.
Misattributed
“The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
“Our supreme dharma is to realize God.”
Mata Amritanandamayi (1953) Hindu spiritual leader and guru
About God (25 Apr '15)
“There can be no free speech in a mob: free speech is one thing a mob can't stand.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
"Quotes", The Educated Imagination (1963), Talk 6: The Vocation of Eloquence
Ralph Abraham (politician) (1954) American physician and congressman
Ralph Abraham: We’ll Make Louisiana the ‘Leading Candidate’ for U.S. Space Command https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2019/03/16/ralph-abraham-well-make-louisiana-the-leading-candidate-for-u-s-space-command/ (16 March 2019)
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Source: 'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, 110, 1861, p. 281
Carl L. Becker (1873–1945) American historian
The Eve of the Revolution (1918)
