Senator David Barton on Liberty

Executive encroachment ... The histories of all nations which have lost their liberties lay before them and they saw on their pages that arbitrary Executive discretion and will ... had been the destroyers of national liberty throughout the greater part of the world ... and the fathers did intend ... to establish a government of law and of checks and restraints upon Executive will, in which no case should exist in which the fate of the humblest citizen whether in private or public life could depends upon the arbitrary will of a single man."