Assembling Quote by James Madison

“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

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

— Michael Parenti

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary,…

— Alexander Hamilton

There simply is no greater threat to individual liberty and the viability of our great nation than the threat that comes from the continued…

— Scott Pruitt

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

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

— Garet Garrett

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

— Ronald Reagan

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

— J. William Fulbright

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent…

— John C. Calhoun

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

— Ayn Rand

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they…

— Thomas Jefferson