Is it desirable that the Congress should always comply with the advice of the President?

No; for then his advice would, in time, come to have the authority of a command; it would be the President and not Congress who was legislating our laws; and the liberty of the country would be in the greatest danger. There is no more dangerous despot than one who can enforce his will, and yet preserve the apparent forms of a free government. Augustus Caesar ruled the whole Roman Empire with absolute sway, yet did everything by the resolve of the Senate, giving the appearance that Rome was free.