Presidential Authority

Famous quotes containing the words presidential and/or authority:

“Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)