#overthrow

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#efforts #governments #law #liberty #man

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#interested #not interested #overthrow #preserving #quo

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#been #called #chairman #coup #democratic

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#canada #damn #ever #gives #nobody

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#between #compose #elements #enables #found

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#brow #built #cannot #demolished #force

From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#army #disappear #done #far #gone

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#action #after #aligned #coordinate #effectively

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#amin #before #breaking #everybody #everything

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. ↗

— Francis Wright

#errors #establishing #facts #imaginations #instead