Power Restriction Quotes

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

It must never be forgotten ... that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

The Constitution was about a limitation on power.

Control is not a luxury that most Presidents are allowed.

A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

The great object in view is to limit and qualify the powers of government.

It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential.

They are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn't exist.

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

All the time, Ukraine was an oligarch country. And all the time, oligarchs were together with the authorities. And this is the first time where we, and me as a president, undertake the serious task to limit the power of the oligarchs.

I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.

We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use for desirable purposes.

In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution.

The sovereign government wasn’t so sovereign.

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.