Checks and balances Quote by David Ignatius

Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority…

— Charlie Baker

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

— Barack Obama

The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink…

— Frederick Douglass

If the Constitution framers would come back today, they would have contempt for most of us.

— Walter E. Williams

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the…

— William Safire

There was a fear among the original framers that the federal government would be so strong that they might destroy the state militias.

— John Paul Stevens

Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always…

— William J. Clinton

The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used…

— William O. Douglas

The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that…

— Lewis H. Lapham

They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform.

— Phil Donahue

“The idea had always struck Shader as bizarre: entrusting the governance of a country to the whims of an uneducated mob. No sense in…

— D.P. Prior

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

— Oscar Wilde