Richard Rumbold Quote

Quote from Richard Rumbold,

"I never could believe that Providence
had sent a few men into the world,
ready booted and spurred to ride, and
millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden."

By:	Richard Rumbold (more quotes by Richard Rumbold or books by/about Richard Rumbold)
	(1622–1685) Parliamentarian soldier, political radical, exiled for his role in the 1683 Rye House Plot, later executed for taking part in the 1685 Argyll's Rising
Source:	His final words on the scaffold before he was hanged in 1685. <br> Douglass ADAIR, Rumbold's Dying Speech, 1685, and Jefferson's Last Words on Democracy, 1826 [Notes and Documents], in: William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 9, 1952, p. 521
Categories:	Authority, Autocracy, Collectivism, Communism, Control, Despotism, Independence, Licensing, Power, Socialism, Sovereignty, Subservience, Totalitarian, Uniformity
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