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THREE SCORE AND THIRTEEN Quotes by Founding Fathers
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"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
- George Washington, in a letter to the Boston Selectmen, July 28, 1795
"It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [The Constitution] a finger of that almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution."
- James Madison, Federalist No. 37, January 11, 1788
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Hunter, March 11, 1790
"There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; because the true idea of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or, in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics."
- John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
Introduction: Three Score and Thirteen Preface: The Federalist Papers Contents: Three Score and Thirteen I The Bill of Rights I How to Order I Quotes by Founding Fathers I I
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