Checks Quotes
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.205, Library of Alexandria
John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”
"My 60 Memorable Games". Book by Bobby Fischer, 1969.
Brainerd Currie, Learned Hand, United States. Supreme Court (1953). “The Supreme Court: an NBC radio discussion”
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.
1936 'You're theTop', from the showAnything Goes.