Checks And Balances Quotes

"Our nation’s stability rests on the separation of powers" "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" "The law always limits every power it gives." "In framing a government, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself" "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. " "In a republic this rule ought to be observed, that the majority should not have the predominant power."