Quotes of Intrusion - somelinesforyou

“ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal — well-meaning but without understanding. ”

- Justice Louis D. Brandeis

“ That's why Pat Robertson, the spiritual adviser of Mr. Bush, is calling for my assassination. That would be much cheaper than an invasion. ”

- Hugo Chavez

“ Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns. ”

- Bertrand de Jouvenal

“ I thank God that after two decades of pain, invasion, today these people are moving forward to rebuilding Afghanistan. ”

- Mohammad Khatami

“ Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. ”

- J.D. Salinger

“ An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to. ”

- John Locke

“ Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ There is no entrenchment as far as ideology is concerned. ”

- Rod Paige

“ Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ”

- James Madison

“ Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ This isn't unique to Eudora. Currently is an invasion of privacy. It may be an acceptable one, but it is an invasion. ”

- Robert Smith

“ We have detected with intelligence reports plans of a supposed invasion, one that would never happen. But we have to denounce it. ”

- Hugo Chavez

“ The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions. ”

- Francis Parkman

“ It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Any practice of putting Taiwan directly or indirectly into the scope of Japan-U.S. security cooperation constitutes an encroachment on China's sovereignty and interference in internal affairs. ”

- Li Zhaoxing

“ 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. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ This immortal phoenix, this beloved Afghanistan, once again rose from the ashes of invasion and subjection. ”

- Hamid Karzai

“ How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens? ”

- Phyllis Schlafly

“ I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. ”

- Branch Rickey

“ I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ”

- James Madison

“ Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain. ”

- Benjamin Tucker

“ A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. ”

- Robert Chapman

“ In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. ”

- Karl Liebknecht

“ Wicked men shake off the government of Reason, as if it were tyranny and usurpation. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ 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 usurpations. ”

- James Madison

“ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ”

- Louis Brandeis

“ Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. ”

- Harvey Allen
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