Power Division Quotes

As a matter of fact and experience, the more power is divided the more irresponsible it becomes.

Their whole civil policy was adverse to concentration of power in the hands of any single individual, but inclined to the opposite principle of division among a number of equals.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate governments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.

The difference between the departments undoubtedly is, that the legislature makes, the executive executes, and the judiciary construes the law.

The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes.

Government and business should remain distinct and separate, one directed from Washington, the other from New York.

An obvious precaution against the corruption of power is to divide the government.

To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.

When I entered Mexico (City) my own will was the law; I commanded the public force...and who compelled me to divide the powers? Myself, and myself alone, because I thought it was right.

The most striking defect in our system of government is that it divides political power and thereby conceals political responsibility.

When it came to the division of power, we did not get from the Jews the slice of cake we deserved... the Jews do not share with us control of wealth, broadcasting stations and other centers of power.

The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

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

And one of the frustrating parts, but it's an inherent part of our democracy, is we have separation of powers.