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" It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution, in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers... "
The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the Armies of the ... - Page 372
by David Ramsay - 1807 - 464 pages
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Panama Canal Treaty (disposition of United States Territory ..., Part 1

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers - Canal Zone - 1977 - 276 pages
...important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within...powers of one department to encroach upon another. The sprit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create,...
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Relating to the Calling of an Atlantic Exploratory Convention. Hearings ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations - 1955 - 172 pages
...important, I would like to bring out. I am quoting from George Washington when he said : It is important that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with the administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres. OPPOSITION...
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Constitutional Issues Relating to the Proposed Genocide Convention: Hearing ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - Constitutional law - 1985 - 790 pages
...with the provisions of the US Constitution. In the words of George Washington, "It is important * * * that the habits of thinking in a free country should...themselves within their respective constitutional spheres.* * *" The Genocide Convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948, and submitted...
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - Quotations, English - 1992 - 550 pages
...definition of tyranny. JAMES MADISON, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 47, p. 336 (1961). 791 It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking...Powers of one department to encroach upon another. President GEORGE WASHINGTON, farewell address, September 19, 1796.— The Writings of George Washington,...
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Early American Writing

Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame lest instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise that the habits of thinking...in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres,...
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On Faith and Free Government

Daniel C. Palm - Political Science - 1997 - 230 pages
...uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking...in a free Country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres,...
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Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States

George Washington - 1998 - 40 pages
...uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming it should consume. It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking...department to encroach upon another. The spirit of [18] encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create,...
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Party Ideologies in America, 1828-1996

John Gerring - Philosophy - 2001 - 354 pages
...party's now traditional opposition to "centralization and to that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever be the form of government, a real despotism." 19 Nineteenth-century Democrats exhibited a quasi-religious...
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An Exposition of the Constitution of the United States

Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1999 - 314 pages
...uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. its administration, to confine themselves within their...The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the power? of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism....
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. It is important, likewise, that the hahits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution...themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avasding, in the exereise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of...
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