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Executive Power Quotes

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 Secondat
Dennis the Peasant: 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. Arthur: Be quiet! Dennis: You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! Graham Chapman
Henry Middleton quote: "There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated..."
There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. Henry Middleton
Garet Garrett quote: "Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one..."
Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. Garet Garrett
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
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
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
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
Daniel Webster quote: "The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp..."
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. Daniel Webster
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
Noam Chomsky quote: "I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere."
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. Noam Chomsky
George W. Bush quote: "I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for..."
I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well. George W. Bush
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
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. Rutherford B. Hayes
Ken Thompson quote: "There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and..."
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data. Ken Thompson

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