Branches Quote by Thomas Jefferson

With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate…

— Thomas Jefferson

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of…

— Thomas Jefferson

I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of…

— Thomas Jefferson

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples…

— Anonymous

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

— James Madison

In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled…

— Wright Patman

The word "federalism" you might think that means federalism trumps everything; federalism means federal domination. It does not mean that. It means the exact…

— Rush Limbaugh

We have our differences since the beginning of America. It's a legitimate difference. What is the role of government, et cetera, federal, state, local?

— Nancy Pelosi

The Government made by a number of Sovereign States.

— Roger Sherman

The government, which is the supreme authority in states, must be in the hands of one, or of a few, or of the many.…

— Aristotle (384â323 BC