Usurpation Quotes
- Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those… — Denis Diderot
- If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some people. Parricide -… — Baron d'Holbach
- Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed… — John Edward Redmond
- Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent… — James Madison
- The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found… — Joshua A. Norton