Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
791
AUTHOR:
George Washington (1732–99)
QUOTATION:
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional Spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.
ATTRIBUTION:
President GEORGE WASHINGTON, farewell address, September 19, 1796.—The Writings of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 35, p. 228 (1940).
