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Alexander Hamilton

speech to the New York Ratifying Convention — 1788
Category: Government

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a certain balance, and that mutual control indispensable to a wise administration. They were convinced that popular assemblies are frequently misguided by ignorance, by sudden impulses, and the intrigues of ambitious men; and that some firm barrier against these operations was necessary. They, therefore, instituted your Senate.

James Madison

Federalist No. 49 — 1788
Category: Government

It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect in the government, frequent appeals would in great measure deprive the government of that veneration which time bestows on every thing, and without which perhaps the wisest and freest governments would not possess the requisite stability.

John Adams

Thoughts on Government — 1776
Category: Government

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

John Adams

Thoughts on Government — 1776
Category: Government

Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

Joseph Story

Commentaries on the Constitution — 1833
Category: Government

How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour.

Thomas Paine

The American Crisis, No. 5 — 1778
Category: Government

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

letter to Maria Cosway — 1786
Category: Government

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

James Madison

Federalist No. 49 — 1788
Category: Government

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

John Jay

Federalist No. 4
Category: Government

Wisely, therefore, do they consider union and a good national government as necessary to put and keep them in such a situation as, instead of inviting war, will tend to repress and discourage it. That situation consists in the best possible state of defense, and necessarily depends on the government, the arms, and the resources of the country.

James Madison

Federalist No. 10 — 1787
Category: Government

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

James Madison

speech in the Virginia constitutional convention — 1829
Category: Government

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Alexander Hamilton and James Madison

Federalist No. 62 — 1788
Category: Government

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

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