“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”– Thomas Carlyle Related Quotes “What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that’s just not what the founders intended.”– Barack Obama “Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.”– John Quincy Adams “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”– Abraham Lincoln