Confederation Quote by George Washington

“The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their…

— Alexander Hamilton

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit…

— Wilfrid Laurier

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger…

— Marquis de Lafayette

I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so as to give great…

— William Whipple

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become…

— Anonymous

“In examining the division of powers, as established by the Federal Constitution, remarking on the one hand the portion of sovereignty which has been…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think…

— Andy Stern

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those…

— Thomas Jefferson

The government of the Union, then, ... is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from…

— John Marshall

“When I consider the state of the United States of America, my primary concerns are not about the state of its economy, or whether…

— Jack Pelham

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small…

— Aristotle

Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people,…

— John F. Kennedy