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Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp. -- W. E. B. Griffin
American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives. -- Walter B. Pitkin
I'm a proud member of the rabble. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
I am a member of the rabble in good standing. -- Westbrook Pegler
I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. -- Horace
The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country. -- Andrew Johnson
The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. -- Epicurus
If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated. -- Albert Einstein
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Who are the rabble and who are the ruled? -- Frank Herbert
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. -- Horace
A wise fellow who is also worthless always charms the rabble. -- Euripides
Always give the rabble something to love and something to hate. -- Karen Azinger
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Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts." -- Gayle Forman
Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty. -- John C. Calhoun
The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory. -- John Taylor Gatto
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country. -- Andrew Johnson
It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures. -- Charles Baudelaire
Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse. -- Walter Savage Landor
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Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it. -- Jello Biafra
Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back. -- James Baker
My raps are a decision, rabble rousing, spiritual, like gospel music. I don't want to dance. We have so many things to deal with, we need to talk straight up and down. -- Tupac Shakur
RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. -- Ambrose Bierce
ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble. -- Ambrose Bierce
Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.' -- John Fund

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