Delegates Quote by John Locke

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't do.

— Benjamin Wittes

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

— Byron Dorgan

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

— P. D. James

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

— Walter Lippmann

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.

— Noam Chomsky

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do…

— Harry Browne

You can't force people in the country to assume power.

— Kirron Kher

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

— Adrian Rogers

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

— Charles Murray

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively,…

— Joseph Story