Confederation Quote by Goldwin Smith

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

— John A. Macdonald

Congress is deadlocked and can’t act.

— Will Rogers

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

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

“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

Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention…

— Jon Stewart

The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and…

— Robert E. Lee

“On the first day of the meeting that would become known as the United States Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph of Virginia kicked off the…

— William Hogeland

The Founding Fathers gave birth to a new type of nation.

— Chad Wolf

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the…

— James K. Polk

In the United States, the world's most important democracy, Congress seems permanently deadlocked, in hock to moneyed interests, unable to grapple with the big…

— Anne Applebaum

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

— Woodrow Wilson