Federalist Quote by William Dobein James

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Sometimes, as in the case of the American Revolution, crucial roles turn out to have been played by people who were not leaders but…

— Niall Ferguson

“First, the achievement of the revolutionary generation was a collective enterprise that succeeded because of the diversity of personalities and ideologies present in the…

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Both Hamilton and Madison were rational men who assumed that people often acted irrationally because of ambition and avarice. Madison wrote, “If men were…

— Ron Chernow

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“I am an aristocrat," Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. "I love liberty; I hate equality.”

— Colin Woodard

The gentlemen who wrote the Constitution were as suspicious of efficient government as they were wary of democracy, a "turbulence and a folly" that…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“...revolutionary nationalism was by far the most successful radical tide of the the twentieth century.”

— Terry Eagleton

“He was a man’s man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and redcoats alike,…

— Jordan L. Hawk

“Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are…

— Charles Dickens

“Jefferson advised him: “I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party…

— Dan Sisson

“Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.”

— Patrick Mendis