Encroachment Quotes

56 quotes by 38 authors

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this… — Ani DiFranco
I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by… — James Madison
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against… — James Madison
Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can… — Ludwig von Mises
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never… — John Adams
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 comfortably… — Joe Bageant
The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another. — Dmitry Pisarev
Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in… — James Monroe
I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is… — Steve Southerland
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state. — Paul Singer
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is… — John Stuart Mill
The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. — Irving Babbitt
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas — John Maynard Keynes
The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few upon the rights of the many. — Robert La Folette
The supreme issue, involving all the others, is the encroachment of the few upon the rights of the many. — Robert La Folette

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