Separation Of Power Quotes

We" are not the government; the government is not "us." The government does not in any accurate sense "represent" the majority of the people

We are not under the command of the military. They are under ours as a Congress.

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.

We have throughout our history been tested when it comes to the institutions of our democracy. And thank God our forefathers were smart enough to establish a government of checks and balances to make sure that power cannot be centralized in any one branch of government. And those institutions have proven themselves.

The Constitution calls for civilian control of the military and I am a civilian.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.

We are teaching the world the great truth, that Governments do better without kings and nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by the other lesson: the Religion flourishes in greater purity without, than with the aid of Government

For one branch of government to control each of the other two is not a good thing.

The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

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.

If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. It ought to be in the hands of both, and they should be separated.... They will need a mutual check. This check is a monarch.

I am president, I don't own the country so they are not my forces.

The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

For 22 years [as a Senator] I worried about all the power at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Now [as Treasury Secretary] I worry about all the power at the opposite end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.

Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other.

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.

We eliminated the monarchy. We put limits on how long one person could lead our country and on the powers they held while in office. We took differences of opinion seriously - in fact, we built them into the fabric of our government.

Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.

Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government.

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.

I think [Donald Trump] does understand that. We talked a great deal about the separation on power and the constitution. And we're very excited about what he's doing because what he's doing is pulling back what we see as unconstitutional executive actions from the past presidents.

The military establishment is an instrument – not a shaper – of national policy. Its members – as free Americans – are entitled to their views on the issues of the day, and they have every right to try to make their views effective through the ballot. They do NOT have the right, however, to use the military establishment to advance partisan concepts or alter the decisions of the elected representatives of the people.