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Encroachment Quotes by James Madison
- The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- [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…
- Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
- [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…
- The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more…
- As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more…
- 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…
- 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…
More Encroachment Quotes
- The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt
- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis
- 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
- Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. — Eric Hoffer
- The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .… — James Madison
- But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which… — Noah Webster
- Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by… — James Madison
- 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
- The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion… — Benjamin Cardozo
- As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the… — James Madison
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — James Madison
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for… — Alexander Hamilton