Usurpations Quotes

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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is… — Joseph Story
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
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution… — James Madison
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive… — James Madison
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is… — Thomas Jefferson
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is… — Edmund Burke
We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy,… — James Madison
This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are… — Thomas Jefferson
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

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