When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Charles de Montesquieu
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude.. We cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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