The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.
John LockeAnd because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage.
John LockeMathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
John LockeIt is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
John Locke