| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 576c7b7 | ...I say, that Power must never be trusted without a check. | scope-of-government separation-of-powers | John Adams | |
| ed82f52 | The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose them on the rest of their fellow-citizens; but the temper of soldiers, habituated at once to violence and to slavery, renders them very unfit guardians of a legal, or even a civil constitution. | separation-of-powers | Edward gibbon | |
| d7fae3f | Inefficiency is to be our safeguard against despotism. | us-constitution separation-of-powers us-government | Garry Wills |