Constitutional convention Quotes · Page 2

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned…

— George Washington

Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words,…

— George Washington

To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state…

— Carrie Chapman Catt

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should…

— George Washington

[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than…

— Fisher Ames

Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history…

— Ruth May Fox

'Tis done. We have become a nation.

— Benjamin Rush

“Why was it sensible for Americans to transubstantiate a convention into the virtual embodiment of the People? After all, as with an…

— Akhil Reed Amar

Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

“During observance of the bicentennial of the Constitution in 1987, Justice Thurgood Marshall made a public attack upon the celebration in which…

— Don E. Fehrenbacher

Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of…

— James Madison

My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of…

— Patrick Henry

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass…

— Alexander Hamilton

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

— Alexander Hamilton

“At the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry had bawdily likened standing armies to a tumescent penis: “An excellent assurance of domestic tranquillity, but…

— Ron Chernow

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

— Thomas Jefferson

“In framing a system which we wish to last for ages, we shd. not lose sight of the changes which ages will…

— James Madison

“Hamilton drew freely on statements he had made at the Constitutional Convention to distinguish his “elective monarch” from a king. The British…

— Ron Chernow

“The phrase 'Founding Fathers' is a proper noun. It refers to a specific group: the delegates to the Constitutional Convention. There were…

— Greg Koukl

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first…

— Jon Stewart

There may have been somewhere, as a few eighteenth-century philosophers dreamed, a group of peaceful men who got together one evening after…

— Henry Hazlitt

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or…

— James Madison

Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun…

— James Madison

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build…

— Benjamin Franklin

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the…

— John Dickinson