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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.
Stephen Harper
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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”

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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.

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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

sydney smith

— Volume I, ch. 10.

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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.

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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).

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