Power Ought Quotes
- All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they… — Edmund Burke
- This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils… — Alexander Hamilton
- The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to… — Alexander Hamilton
- The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought… — Thomas Jefferson
- Power ought to serve as a check to power. — Baron de Montesquieu
- The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. — James Madison
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. — James Madison