Usurped Power Quotes
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens… — James Madison
- The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our… — Daniel Ellsberg
- For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. — Henry Fielding
- Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand… — William Godwin