Checks and balances Quotes

"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. "

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"

"Our nation’s stability rests on the separation of powers"

"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"

"In a republic this rule ought to be observed, that the majority should not have the predominant power."

"The law always limits every power it gives."