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Presidential powers are not fixed but fluctuate, depending upon their disjunction or conjunction with those of Congress.

With all its defects, delays and inconveniences, men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the Executive be under the law, and that the law be made by parliamentary deliberations.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make

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.

His duty is to administer the present Government as it came to his hands and to transmit it unimpaired by him to his successor.

If the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the Government must cease.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.

What I do say is that no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government,--that is despotism.

The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.

Considering standing armies as dangerous to free governments in time of peace, I shall not seek to enlarge our present establishment, nor disregard that salutary lesson of political experience which teaches that the military should be held subordinate to the civil power.

In administering the laws of Congress I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.

Our Constitution does not contain the absurdity of giving power to make laws, and another power to resist them.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

The Constitution to which life was thus imparted contains within itself ample resources for its own preservation.

The ancient republics absorbed the individual in the state--prescribed his religion and controlled his activity.

The powers of patronage and rule which would have been exercised, under the President, over a vast and populous and naturally wealthy region are greater than, unless under extreme necessity, I should be willing to intrust to any one man.

Nay, ’tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint

No political party can long pursue advantage at the expense of public honor or by rude and indecent methods without protest and fatal disaffection in its own body.

The man who has come to regard the ballot box as a juggler's hat has renounced his allegiance.

They will presently themselves be compelled to appeal to the law for protection, and those who would use the law as a defense must not deny that use of it to others.

The whole theory of our institutions is based on the liberty and independence of the individual.

The Government can not successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.