Money Quote by John Adams

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue,…

— John Adams

“All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise, not from want of honor or virtue, but from the downright ignorance of the nature…

— John Adams

“The American Constitution was carefully rigged by the noteholders, land speculators, rum runners, and slave holders who were the Founding Fathers, so that it…

— G. William Domhoff

“Americans wouldn’t be in the economic predicament we’re in, if there were no America. So we can all thank our founding fathers for America’s…

— Jarod Kintz

“Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived…

— David E. Wilkins

“Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology, can believe that paper guarantees of liberty -…

— Aldous Huxley

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I love the Constitution, but it placed ridiculously small limits on the power of the federal government. Taken literally, our total powers include coining…

— Erne Lewis

“In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted in Europe,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“To my countrymen who gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the wisdom to…

— Nani Palkhiwala

“James Madison is said to have warned that “the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its…

— George Washington