Dread Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“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 executive possesses means of distracting Parliament from its proper function; it seduces members by the offer of places and pensions, by retaining them…

— J.G.A. Pocock

The function of parliament is to hold the executive to account. We should never overlook the primacy of parliament.

— Betty Boothroyd

What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government…

— George Washington

“The doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty has become the doctrine of the executive in Parliament…”

— Shirley Williams

“The parliamentary democracy we have adopted involves the British perversity of electing a legislature to form an executive: this has created a unique breed…

— Shashi Tharoor

It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first…

— Alexander Hamilton

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by…

— James Madison

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most…

— H. L. Mencken

It is well settled in our Constitutional scheme that all Parliamentary Acts and mandates bind the executive. Any executive act, which violates any express…

— Prashant Bhushan

The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of…

— J. William Fulbright