Limitation of Power Quotes

Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary judicial power, instead of a limitation on all government power.

It must never be forgotten ... that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.

There is no fettering of authority.

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations and abuses that might be warranted by the terms of the Constitution. It must never be forgotten, however, that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government, as by the limitation of power.

Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power