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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. -- Noam Chomsky
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. -- Daniel Webster
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. -- Garet Garrett
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. -- Andrew Jackson
The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other. -- Charles Hodge
The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes. -- Michael Parenti
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. -- George W. Bush
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. -- Noam Chomsky
Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve. -- Nick Harkaway
I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet. -- Jim Gilmore
I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant. -- Edward Snowden
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. -- Richard M. Nixon
Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical. -- Karl Marx
A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch. -- John Adams
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile, administers the state and is the Supreme Chief of the Nation. -- Augusto Pinochet
Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. -- Michael Palin
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. -- John Podhoretz
The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible. -- Steve Stockman
Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty. -- Immanuel Kant
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. -- Baron de Montesquieu
A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
More fundamentally, however, the answer to petitioners' objection is that there can be no impairment of executive power, whether on the state or federal level, where actions pursuant to that power are impermissible under the Constitution. Where there is no power, there can be no impairment of power. -- William J. Brennan
The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government. -- Wheeler McMillen
I am committed against every thing which in my judgment, may weaken, endanger, or destroy (the Constitution) ... and especially against all extension of Executive power; and I am committed against any attempt to rule the free people of this country by the power and the patronage of the Government itself.... -- Daniel Webster
Church, the spiritual power, and the executive power are working today united in a system that confronts people. This alliance or cooperation between the spiritual power and the executive power, between the church and the government, unfortunately takes away the Church's basic mission. It takes away their right to speak on moral or ethical subjects. -- Andrey Zvyagintsev
The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check. -- Richard Stengel
The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory. -- Thomas Jefferson
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines. -- Edward Gibbon
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. -- Edward Gibbon
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 dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence. -- Noam Chomsky
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes. -- Ernest Hemingway
Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president. -- Tom Rice
The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations. -- James Madison
To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately. -- James Pearse Connelly
The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today. -- Noam Chomsky
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. -- James Madison
There is no such thing as a just and fair method of exercising the tremendous power that interventionism puts into the hands of the legislature and the executive. -- Ludwig von Mises
We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body -- Thomas Jefferson
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States -- Andrew Jackson

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