General welfare Quote by James Madison

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by…

— Lord Chesterfield

Lists are a form of power.

— Anonymous

These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and…

— Alexander Hamilton

This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.

— John Marshall

Power is the recognition of necessity.

— Abraham Rotstein

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the…

— Thomas Jefferson

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

— Lottie Moon

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects,…

— James Madison

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it…

— Joseph Story

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

— Robert Greene

It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

— Baron de Montesquieu