I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Executive power in any nation arguably has more in common with executive power in another country than with the citizens it should serve.