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Executive Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public…
- Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest…
- The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
- We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
- A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at…
- [T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own…
- The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not…
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the…
- We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive…
- No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
More Executive Quotes
- Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects,… — Thomas Jefferson
- ...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and… — George Monbiot
- I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records. — L.A. Reid
- To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art… — Claude Bernard
- Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey
- I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time… — Sam Walton
- The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the… — Edward Bernays