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I started my political career facing lynch mobs.
What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
Mobs in the street tearing down Ulysses S. Grant statues is a really chilling sight.
Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
I actually think that the Republicans are the party of jobs and the Democrats are the party of mobs.
Americans have always understood the danger of mobs. They are always dangerous; they are always demonic.
One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.
Statues and murals depicting historical figures, and even Jesus Christ himself, are being targeted by angry mobs of individuals looking to rewrite history.
You have the right to free speech as an American - you have no right to use YouTube to do it. And the mobs that exist can form very quickly if they are offended by your presence there.
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
'Flash mobs' are reported on extensively because they're novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they're reporting on.
I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
Mob rule is dangerous. Well-intentioned, TV-baited mobs are the most dangerous. They do not consider the consequences of their actions, and they're prone to take a simple-minded, instant-gratification approach to justice rather than a strategic one.
