Usurpation Quotes
30 quotes by 27 authors
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There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant…
— James Madison
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If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by…
— George Washington
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful…
— Cato the Younger
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Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a…
— Thomas Paine
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I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand…
— Antonin Artaud
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What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers…
— James Madison
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation…
— James Monroe
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That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right…
— Joseph Story
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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and…
— Andrew Jackson
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Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of…
— Stephen Johnson Field
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Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George…
— Ramsey Clark
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All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
— Samuel Johnson
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized…
— Ezra Stiles
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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…
— James Madison
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I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is…
— Simon Bolivar
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Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust…
— Terry Eagleton
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