7 Usurpation Quotes for You to Enjoy

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. Andrew Jackson

Great Corruption People Strong Will Power Enough Corrective Constitutional Deliberation Calmness Prove Hands Against Agents Used Usurpation Right Suffrage

I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers. Marquis de Lafayette

Liberty Anarchist Claiming Religious Religious Liberty Blaming Had Priests Aristocratic Powers Sort Offers Legitimate Them Usurpation Rejecting

Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President. John C. Calhoun

Will Master Become Congress President Assured Those Seeking Proper Never Beyond Powers Executive Surely Makes Pass Limits Person Conferred Hands Transcends Fruits Certain Usurpation Assigned

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure. Terry Eagleton

Sometimes Political Crimes Secure Has-Been Brought Invasion Only Thrust Unconscious Feel Safely Occupation Been Denying Sovereignty Nations Being Them Original Usurpation Flourish Extermination

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 in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. John Edward Redmond

Government Matter Country Our Hundreds Characterized Fraud Robbed Robbery Been Years Taxes Fifty English Usurpation Why Last Millions

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. Henry James Sumner Maine

Trust Sometimes Tyranny Doubt Ought Our Lodged No Doubt Mere Abuse Leave Authorities Regarded Us Engine Certainly Usurpation Oligarchy

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 guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots. Joshua A. Norton