--- title: "1 Constitutional convention Quotes By John Dickinson" description: "1 Constitutional convention quotes by John Dickinson. Plus more from John Dickinson and more Constitutional convention sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b43/john-dickinson-18449_constitution_let-our-government-be-like-that-of-the-s_2460646.jpg" --- > [Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/let-our-government-be-like-that-of-the-solar-system-let-the-general/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b43/john-dickinson-18449_constitution_let-our-government-be-like-that-of-the-s_2460646.jpg) ## Other authors on Constitutional convention - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-madison-46533.jpg) James Madison 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/constitutional-convention/james-madison/) - [Benjamin Franklin 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/constitutional-convention/benjamin-franklin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-washington-38054.jpg) George Washington 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/constitutional-convention/george-washington/) ## More by John Dickinson > [The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/the-rights-essential-to-happiness-we-claim-them-from-a-higher-source/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/kings-or-parliaments-could-not-give-the-rights-essential-to-happiness/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [Our liberties do not come from charters; for these are only the declaration of pre-existing rights. They do not depend on parchments or seals;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/our-liberties-do-not-come-from-charters-for-these-are-only-the/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [For I am convinced, that the authors of this law would never obtain an act to raise so trifling a sum as it must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/for-i-am-convinced-that-the-authors-of-this-law-would-never-obtain-an/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/experience-must-be-our-only-guide-reason-may-mislead-us/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/the-power-of-the-people-pervading-the-proposed-system-together-with/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [If my property cannot be secure, in case others over whom I have no kind of influence, may take it from me by taxes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/if-my-property-cannot-be-secure-in-case-others-over-whom-i-have-no/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/most-men-with-nothing-would-rather-protect-the-possibility-of/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/with-hearts-fortified-with-these-animating-reflections-we-most/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/our-cause-is-just-our-union-is-perfect/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/honor-justice-and-humanity-call-upon-us-to-hold-and-to-transmit-to/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/we-cannot-be-happy-without-being-free-we-cannot-be-free-without-being/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/then-join-hand-in-hand-brave-americans-all-by-uniting-we-stand-by/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [As Congress is now to legislate for our extensive territory lately acquired, I pray to Heaven that they may build up the system of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/as-congress-is-now-to-legislate-for-our-extensive-territory-lately/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) > [As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dickinson/as-in-forming-a-political-society-each-individual-contributes-some-of/) [John Dickinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dickinson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/constitutional-convention/john-dickinson/#itemlist", "name": "1 Constitutional convention Quotes By John Dickinson", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Let our government be like that of the solar system. 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