Branches Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

— Thomas Hobbes

People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty…

— Jonathan Turley

When it comes to the separation of powers, the Constitution makes it look pretty simple: Congress makes the laws, the president enforces them and…

— Asha Rangappa

I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.

— T.I

It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first…

— Alexander Hamilton

Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into…

— Thomas Sowell

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In America, we divide federal power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches so that no one holds too much power. This is sixth-grade…

— Ben Sasse

From the moment of birth, at every level, human beings who are more alike than different become polarized into two absolutely exclusive classes with…

— Nancy Mairs

“Independence is not something you can divide into phases. It exists or does not exist.”

— Paul Scott

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

— Jose Saramago

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

— Frans Timmermans