Limiting Power Quotes

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

Emergency does not create power.

Magna Carta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.

Let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

… power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

The danger of undue power in the President is not, to me, formidable.

The Constitution is not about restricting the people; it is about restricting the government.

Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims.

We should have a strong president. Strong enough to resist the temptation of taking power that a president shouldn't have.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.

If we cannot destroy party, we ought to place every check upon it.

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the 'end of time,' or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it.

It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good of the United States; and as they would be the sole judges of the good or evil, it would be also a power to do whatever evil they please . . . . Certainly no such universal power was meant to be given them. It [the Constitution] was intended to lace them up straightly within the enumerated powers and those without which, as means, these powers could not be carried into effect.

We indeed did and do own our own minds and bodies, and anything from church or state that limits that is inappropriate and inconsistent with the ... society that America is supposed to be.