All powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial, derive, under God, from the people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase,… — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
“The pretense that the workings of the mind, like the actions of the body, are subject to the control of laws, does… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That the Powers of Government may be resumed by the People, whensoever it shall become necessary to their Happiness; that every Power,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people are the source of governmental power. Along with many religious people, Latter-day Saints affirm that God gave the power to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We should know at least the broad strokes of the powers that the government's claiming in our name, and using allegedly, on… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of… — James Mill Copy Share Image
A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image