I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.
Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
The person you call 'President Obama" and I frankly refuse to call him that. . . at the moment, he is somebody who is kind of an 'alleged usurper' who is alleged to be someone who is occupying that office without constitutional warrant to do so.
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.
The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them. . . the success of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.
Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
