I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Truth is sensitive and jealous of the least encroachment upon its sacredness. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt Copy Share Image
The supreme issue, involving all the others, is the encroachment of the few upon the rights of the many. — Robert La Folette Copy Share Image
Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles. — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake - if anyone set up its observance on a Jewish… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones;… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte died — but no Forsyte had as… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“To many people I have no doubt that it appears merely silly. I once found it expressed in a rather amusing way… — Daniele Varè Copy Share Image
The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words… Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted. — Horace Copy Share Image
You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the… — Yoweri Museveni Copy Share Image
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
American special relationships with Israel and Saudi Arabia blind us to their dreadful encroachments on human rights, as well as confer impunity… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — James Madison Copy Share Image
![“All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control. We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God. [ CNN interview (December 8, 2010)]” quote by Steve Wozniak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/423/steve-wozniak-2527_communication_all-of-a-sudden-we-ve-lost-a-lot-of-cont_1215685.jpg)
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![“To many people I have no doubt that it appears merely silly. I once found it expressed in a rather amusing way in a Russian Book called Dal Zoviet , which means the lure of far horizons. The author is Galinischev Kutuzoff [Golenischev-Kutuzov], and he tells of a man in Northern Mongolia who goes…” quote by Daniele Varè](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dcd/daniele-var-42637_books_to-many-people-i-have-no-doubt-that-it-a_1543721.jpg)
![“The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property…” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/88a/james-madison-373_accumulation_the-danger-of-silent-accumulations-encro_796893.jpg)
![“[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/733/james-madison-373_concentration_a-mere-demarcation-on-parchment-of-the-c_428771.jpg)
