"The father of confederation is deadlock." — Goldwin Smith

More Confederation Quotes

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• All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want… — John Adams
• The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an… — John Dickinson
• As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a… — John Dickinson
• Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In… — George Washington
• [M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the… — George Washington
• I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind.… — H.G. Wells
• I fear a permanent Confederation will never be settled; tho the most material articles are I think got thro', so… — William Whipple
• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be… — Kim Campbell
• There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the… — Julie Powell
• Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the… — Richard Rorty
• When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?'… — Jacques Parizeau
• Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have… — Jefferson Davis

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