There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thous...and others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of tho...se who obey.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The expansive nature of truth comes to our succor, elastic, not to be surrounded. Man helps himself by larger generalizations. The... lesson of life is practically to generalize; to believe what the years and the centuries say against the hours; to resist the usurpation of particulars; to penetrate to their catholic sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Church... or State; and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--and thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The President has the authority to do a great deal in promoting a reform of the civil service. But the great mass of evils to be d...ealt with require means, time agents, the work of intelligent and able officers, none of which the President has unless they are furnished by Congress. As at present situated, the great evil is congressional patronage. This I have resisted as a usurpation of executive prerogatives, until now few Congressmen assert openly their claim to it. But they withhold from the Executive the means to get information from other sources than through Congressmen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the [Utah] Territory is virtually under the theocratic government of the Mormon Church. The union of church and state is compl...ete. The result is the usual one, the usurpation or absorption of all temporal authority and power by the church. Polygamy and every other evil sanctioned by the church is safe. To destroy the temporal power of the Mormon Church is the end in view.... Mormonism as a sectarian idea is nothing, but as a system of government it is our duty to deal with it as an enemy to our institutions, and its supporters and leaders as criminals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the r...ight of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no ...body can have a right to. And this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private separate advantage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »