Encroachment Quotes
56 quotes by 38 authors
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
— Irving Babbitt
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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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 naturally…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
— Eric Hoffer
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The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
— James Madison
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But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information…
— Noah Webster
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Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may…
— James Madison
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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 and…
— Norman Lamm
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The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments,…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of…
— James Madison
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than…
— James Madison
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The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the…
— Alexander Hamilton
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But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of…
— James Madison
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If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will…
— James Madison
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If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be…
— Calvin Coolidge
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If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the…
— James Madison
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The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control…
— S. T. Joshi
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I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a…
— George Washington
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