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Federal Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I believe the states can best govern our home concerns and the federal government our foreign ones.
- The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in the constitution of the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body, (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow)…
- [The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.
- The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step…
- The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
- But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
- Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is…
- I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all…
- I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction…
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- Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing. — Bob Barr
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