Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

Our Constitution is the envy of the world.

The federal constitution is perhaps the greatest of human experiments.

Institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty.

As for us BRITONS, thank Heaven, we have a better Sense of Government deliver’d to us from our Ancestors. We have the Notion of A PUBLIC and A CONSTITUTION; how a Legislative, and how an Executive is model’d.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both….

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

The constitution is a sacred document in a democracy.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

Our Constitution was put together for a free people.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Democracy passes into despotism.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.

I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

Democracy or Anti-Democracy

The English constitution is founded on the principle of choosing a single sovereign authority and making it good.