Articles Quote by William Whipple

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

— John A. Macdonald

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 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

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

“On January 27, 1778, the -Articles of Confederation-, recently adopted by Congress, were debated here [Montague, Massachusetts]. It was 'voted to approve of the…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

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

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to…

— George Washington

“But in writing your constitution let me invite attention the wonderful virtues of the negative! Accentuate the negative! Let your document be studded with…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Owing its ratification to the law of a State, it has been contended that the same authority might repeal the law by which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

“… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the safeguard to…

— Anonymous

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

— Abraham Lincoln