American revolution Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“While I pray that public awareness and debate will lead to reform, bear in mind that the policies of men change in time, and…

— Glenn Greenwald

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from…

— Thomas Jefferson

“No one knows the powers that are latent in his constitution. Called forth by imminent dangers, our efforts frequently exceed our most sanguine belief.”

— Charles Brockden Brown

“Where there is a constitution, there is always the politics of negotiated or compromised power.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography.”

— Glenn Greenwald

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and…

— Frederick Douglass

“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon…

— Frederick Douglass

“It is something anyone in power must fear, being surrounded by the flatterers and fools who say only what they think the powerful want…

— Jack Campbell

“Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power.”

— Michael S. Greve

“Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a…

— Alexander Hamilton

“So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void…

— Jonathan Swift

"There can be no power without mystery. There must always be a 'something' which others cannot altogether fathom, which puzzles them, stirs them, and…

— Charles De Gaulle