Absolute power Quote by Frederic Bastiat

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to…

— Frederic Bastiat

The legislator commands the future; to be feeble will avail him nothing: it is for him to will what is good and to perpetuate…

— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

— Edmund Burke

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge…

— James Madison

If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to…

— Edward Kennedy

It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people,…

— Frederic Bastiat

The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of…

— J. William Fulbright

The legislator is like the navigator of a ship on the high seas. He can steer the vessel on which he sails, but he…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that…

— John Locke

“My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyrick upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are…

— Jonathan Swift

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties,…

— James Madison

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

— J. William Fulbright