Civilization has developed executive powers far beyond its…

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it…

— Thomas Jefferson

Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

— James Hansen

“Then I said to myself, "If the centuries are going by, mine will come too, and will pass, and after a time the last…

— Machado de Assis

What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

— Michael Pollan

Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation between the…

— Andrey Zvyagintsev

I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more…

— Barack Obama

Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension of…

— Daniel Webster

The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry…

— Richard Stengel

Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the…

— Augusto Pinochet

The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities… The most fearful event…

— Wheeler McMillen

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly,…

— Charles Hodge

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president…

— John Podhoretz

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the…

— Edward Gibbon

Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'€™t the first president to abuse executive power -…

— David Harsanyi