Cases Quote by Alexander Hamilton

The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of…

— Adolf Hitler

There will be found to exist at all times an imperious necessity for restraining all the functionaries of the Government within the range of…

— John Tyler

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

— Thomas More

A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to…

— Alexander Hamilton

“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to cope with…

— Thomas Sowell

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

— Charles Edward Merriam

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state…

— Anthony de Jasay

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

— Baron de Montesquieu

What is crucial is for any and all countries to be under the rule of law, not the rule by force, which we absolutely…

— Fumio Kishida

Even government by the consent of the governed, as in our own Constitution, must be limited in its power to act against its people;…

— Robert Kennedy

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights…

— Richard Perle