Words to live by.

1) "The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must
be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."

- James Madison (speech in the Virginia constitutional convention,
2 December 1829)

2) "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence
in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the
Constitution."

- Thomas Jefferson (fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky
Resolutions of 1798, 1798)