Assuming Quote by Thomas Jefferson

[An] act of the Congress of the United States... which assumes powers... not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void…

— Thomas Jefferson

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right.

— Thomas Paine

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

— Charley Reese

A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without…

— Thomas Paine

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a…

— Tony Blair

Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.

— Paul Craig Roberts

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

Power without authority is tyranny.

— Jacques Maritain

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

— James Madison

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

— Emma Goldman

Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory…

— John Marshall