I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save,… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is… — Vandana Shiva 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
If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human… — Ed Ayres Copy Share Image
How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the… — Stephen Johnson Field Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Questions of such gravity go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set… — Stephen Johnson Field Copy Share Image
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are religions in which the representation of the world is banned as an usurpation of the power of a God, creator… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities,… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments,… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look… — James Madison Copy Share Image
An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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