Bones Quote by John A. Macdonald

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

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

The father of confederation is deadlock.

— Goldwin Smith

“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

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

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

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

— Daniel Webster

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

— George W. Casey, Jr

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

— Abraham Lincoln

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

— Maxime Bernier

This [the U.S. Constitution] is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism... when the people shall become…

— Benjamin Franklin