Articles of confederation Quote by William Barr

The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

— Charlotte Beers

Our Founders worried a lot about the tyranny of the majority. They designed our form of government to provide a loud voice for minority…

— Charlie Baker

“If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitated toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why…

— Michael J. Sullivan

“If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitate toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why…

— Michael J. Sullivan

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders of the…

— Joe Conason

Twilight of the Elites main thesis has been borne out far past what I could ever have imagined. The major idea was that these…

— Chris Hayes

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of…

— Booker T. Washington

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about -…

— John Milius

Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less…

— James O'Toole

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