Bureaucracy Quote by Charley Reese

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

— Richard Dreyfuss

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

— Thomas Jefferson

When great powers fade, as they inevitably must, it's normally for one of two reasons. Some powers exhaust themselves through overreach abroad, underinvestment at…

— Richard N. Haass

On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others…

— James Madison

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to…

— Hannah Arendt

That the Powers of Government may be resumed by the People, whensoever it shall become necessary to their Happiness; that every Power, Jurisdiction and…

— Anonymous

The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

— George Washington

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

— George Orwell

As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches…

— James Madison

[T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or…

— Antony C. Sutton

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain…

— Jefferson Davis