Famous quotes containing the words lynch and/or mob:
“Johnsons conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young childs mouth.”
—Hester Lynch Thrale (17391821)
“The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendour of those who eclipsed and preceded them.”
—Walter Bagehot (18261877)