Eripuit Coelo fulmen, mox Sceptra Tyrannis.
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He seized the lightning from Heaven and the scepter from the Tyrants.
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, as quoted in The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review (November 1803 - April 1804; 1811). This has also been quoted in several other variants of Latin or French expression, and been translated into English in various ways. Though it has probably incorrectly been cited as a remark of 1775, the earliest published reference to it appears to have occurred in April 1778.Benjamin Franklin
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Eripuit fulmen coelo, mox sceptra tyrannis.
Benjamin Franklin
Eripuit fulmen coelo, mox sceptra tyrannis.
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis.
Benjamin Franklin
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis.
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Manus haec inimica tyrannis
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem.Algernon Sydney
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