Administration Quote by Jonathan Swift

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to…

— Martin Van Buren

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.

— Thomas More

[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

For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of…

— James Madison

State-building can not be imposed. Its foundation must be a shared understanding between those who govern, and those who give their consent to be…

— Hilary Benn

When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county,…

— Alexander Hamilton

When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much.

— Ronald Reagan

“Neither the executive nor the legislature can act beyond the limits of the law.”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

— Charles Edward Merriam

The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people. We must always be clear…

— Samora Machel

Statesmen have to bend to the collective will of their peoples or be broken

— Anonymous

It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within…

— James Madison