Matteo Salvini Quotes

The founders had a strong distrust for centralized power in a federal government. So they created a government with checks and balances. This was to prevent any branch of the government from becoming too powerful.

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.

The genius of American government consists of the creative tension between conservatives on the one hand and liberals on the other hand..

No other country has copied the separation and division of powers that we have.

It is not be consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected.

No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many.

The [founding] fathers hoped not to create a system of party government under a constitution, but rather a constitutional government that would check and control parties.

Much to Mr. Obama's chagrin, ours is not a government run by fiat. The American people have shown quite clearly that they will not simply roll over while this administration seeks to undercut our founding principles in pursuit of its preferred European model of government.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government.

The Founding Fathers didn’t intend for the lawyers to run this country

The Founding Fathers gladly sacrificed government that could provide speedy, effective, cohesive, and internally consistent policies. They opted for one that had a maximum number of veto points and checks and balances and protections against tyranny by particular officials or tyranny by selfish majorities.

The federal constitution is perhaps the greatest of human experiments.

The founding fathers set up this country as a republic—not a democracy.

Our government is composed of checks …

That's what the American system is all about: to keep power divided.

The Constitution reminds us that the government that produces free people is one of divided power.

The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

Form such a national government that we think best adapted for the good of the whole.

The framers of our Constitution came up with two major contributions to the art of government. The first was the idea of an executive not dependent on the political support of the legislature. The second was the idea of the judiciary independent of the executive and legislative branches.

Individual liberty depends on decentralized government

In our constitutional system, states are free to make decisions and bear the political consequences, good or bad, of those choices.