Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment…

Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving on this…

— Frederick Lenz

Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the…

— George Bernard Shaw

As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be…

— James Madison

Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though philosophers like…

— Robert Graves

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are…

— Louis D. Brandeis

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are…

— Thomas Jefferson

The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government,…

— George Washington

If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live…

— Joe Bageant

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies…

— James Madison

If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish foundation, then…

— Martin Luther

I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment.

— George W. Bush

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and…

— Henry Clay

To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment…

— Norman Lamm

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is involved in…

— George Orwell

[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to…

— James Madison