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Usurpations Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- 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…
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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… — Joseph Story
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — 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… — James Madison
- The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is… — James Madison
- But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute… — Thomas Jefferson
- That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty… — Edmund Burke
- We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look… — James Madison
- This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves… — Thomas Jefferson
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in… — James Madison