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Quotes

  • “The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “God is everywhere ... throughout the whole universe which He fills, governs and preserves, ruling it by wisdom and grace. ”
    Elizabeth Ann Seton , Collected Writings I · View
  • “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ”
    John Adams , Letter to the Massachusetts Militia · View
  • “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. ”
    George Washington , Attributed · View
  • “The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed; and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects. ”
    James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View
  • “But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and sixthe swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep on even Pace. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Abigail Adams · View
  • “I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truththat God governs in the affairs of men. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Speech at the Constitutional Convention · View
  • “The American Revolution was not a mere change of ministersit was a change of principles. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View
  • “It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , Observations on the New Constitution · View
  • “Let us speak freely and wisely, for the republic depends on it. ”
    Elizabeth Willing Powel , Philadelphia Historical Society · View
  • “The people who own the country ought to govern it. ”
    John Jay , Letter to George Washington · View
  • “Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 70 · View
  • “Real liberty is neither found in despotism nor in the extremes of democracy. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 1 · View
  • “Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. ”
    John Jay , Federalist No. 3 · View
  • “Education should inspire youth with just and liberal ideas of government. ”
    Noah Webster , On the Education of Youth in America · View
  • “Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. ”
    George Washington , First Annual Message to Congress · View
  • “The people who own the country ought to govern it. ”
    John Jay , Letter to George Washington · View
  • “Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. ”
    John Jay , Federalist No. 3 · View
  • “Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. ”
    Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 70 · View