Concentration of Authority Quotes

there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping's concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many.

I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.

We have seen the evil of perpetuation of centralization of government, and of control from Great bureaucracies, appointments of courts and control of our foreign relations, all due to the bill-up, accumulated potency and power of one man [FDR] remaining to long in public office.

What is a uni-polar world? No matter how we beautify this term, it means one single centre of power, one single centre of force and one single master.

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.

The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy.

The great danger to our institutions does not appear to me to be in a usurpation by the Government of power not granted by the people, but by the accumulation in one of the departments of that which was assigned to others. Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated in one of the departments.