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encroachment
«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 encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Civilization,
Freedom,
Mankind
| Keywords:
abridgment, abridgments, encroachment, encroachments, gradual, instances, sudden, The General, usurpation, violent
«Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Government,
Religion
| Keywords:
bodies, constitution, Constitution of the, Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, ecclesiastical, encroachment, encroachments, furnished, government in, government of the United, government of the United States, guarded, illustrate, illustrated, illustrates, illustrating, precedents, separation, strongly, the United States, United States, United States Constitution, United States government
«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 an undeniable truth»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Liberty,
People,
Security
| Keywords:
encroachment, encroachments, superiors, undeniable
«Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Education,
Learning,
Liberty,
Security
| Keywords:
craftiest, crafty, encroachment, encroachments, favorite, free people, institutions
«The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
| About:
Interest
| Keywords:
encroachment, encroachments, exaggerated, gradual, vastly, vest, vested, vested interest, vests
«The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
| Keywords:
dangers, encroachment, encroachments, insidious, lurk, well-meaning, zeal
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, cluttered, Dead language, decorative, encroachment, encroachments, Greek, Greek word, Latin, lure, lured, lures, obscurity, phrases, reliable, struggling, vagueness, worn, worn out, writes
«There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against politica»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Independence,
Opinions,
Politics
| Keywords:
collective, encroachment, encroachments, good condition, legitimate
