Affection Quote by George Washington

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

— George Washington

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in…

— James Madison

When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions…

— Thomas Jefferson

In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles…

— Noah Webster

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men…

— Leland Stanford

“The foundation of government is . . . laid, not in imaginary rights of men, (which at best is a confusion of judicial with…

— Edmund Burke

The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that it must…

— James Madison

A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine…

— Oliver Ellsworth

A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes…

— John Adams

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated…

— James Madison