Apprehension Quote by James Madison

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

— James Madison

In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all…

— James Madison

A standing army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the liberties of the people. Such power should be…

— Samuel Adams

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty;…

— Anonymous

If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the…

— Alexander Hamilton

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

— Michael Parenti

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most…

— James Madison

...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if…

— Alexander Hamilton

“A large populace held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And we know the…

— Frank Herbert

“the swarms of cringers, suckers, doughfaces, lice of politics, planners of sly involutions for their own preferment to city offices or state legislatures or…

— Walt Whitman

“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature…

— Thomas Jefferson

[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to…

— James Madison