Cicero tweets on the death of Gadhafi

 ... there is no “people” unless it is bound by agreement in law, and that mob is as much a tyrant as if it were one person.

~ Cicero, On the Commonwealth, circa 54-51 BC

Source: Cicero, On the Commonwealth and On the Laws. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, ed. James E.G. Zetzel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), p.76.