Confederation Quotes

22 quotes by 19 authors

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so… — John Adams
The father of confederation is deadlock. — Goldwin Smith
The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger… — 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, derive… — John Dickinson
Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears… — George Washington
[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the… — George Washington
I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-Stateâ€¦ — H.G. Wells
I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great offence… — William Whipple
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role… — Kim Campbell
There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost,… — Julie Powell
Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers… — Richard Rorty
When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In… — Jacques Parizeau
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If… — Jefferson Davis
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. — Stephen Harper
Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to… — Wilfrid Laurier
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting… — Jon Stewart
The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited… — Barbara Ann Radnofsky
If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. — Franjo Tudjman
When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right… — Thomas Jefferson

Who Wrote These Confederation Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 22 Confederation Quotes as follows: