Neal Boortz Quotes

Americans have always understood the danger of mobs. They are always dangerous; they are always demonic.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the everyday news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana; they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creatures of climate … neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding states…. Such are the effects of mob law, and such are the scenes becoming more and more frequent in this land so lately famed for love of law and order

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

Everybody created his own justice and administered it for himself…. It was justice administered directly by the people in the complete absence of regular judicial bodies.

The masses are principally to be feared because they fly out ever and anon into violence; and from plundering they proceed to the flat levelling of estates.

Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.

Mob rule is always extremely dangerous for the future of democracy.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars.

You can't even look outside because everything's so crazy, especially in America. And I live in Detroit! There's the economy, and the fact you can't even open your door any more without going nuts.

'Cartel Land' explores what happens when - in a Mexican society without order, law or security - vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

In the meantime, I would drink, rest, and ponder the meaning of this mob.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.