Encroach Quotes
More Encroach Quotes
It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta, to limit the extent to which an aggressive and hostile federal government can encroach upon legitimate provincial jurisdiction.
— source: Stephen Harper National Post, January 24, 2001, “Open Letter to Ralph Klein”
There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.
william cowper— 1783 Letter to Rev William Unwin,7 Sep.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
sydney smith— Volume I, ch. 10.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional Spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.
— George Washington, farewell address (September 19, 1796); reported in John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington (1940), vol. 35, p. 228.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
sydney smith— Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. I, ch. 10 (1855).
