Explore 200 quotes from the 1780s

The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 5.

"The Constitution of the United States." The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Racehorse, 2016, art. 1, sec. 2.

Blake, William. "Annotations to Lavater's Aphorisms on Man." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008.

Jefferson, Thomas. "James Madison, Sept. 6, 1789." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Hamilton, Alexander and James Madison. "No. 20: Conclusion: such confederations wrong in theory, violent in practice.--Madison (and Hamilton). The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia, edited by Frank Shuffelton. Penguin Classics, 1998, query 17.

The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 6.

Franklin, Benjamin."Paris, 1776-1785: Robert Morris, December 26, 1783." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0258.

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. I: Deliberation on a new constitution--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Jefferson, Thomas. "Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Madison, James. "No. 51: How to maintain: make the parts check each other. Also, a federal system divides power further.--Madison (or Hamilton)." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Hamilton, Alexander. "No. I: Deliberation on a new constitution--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Madison, James. "No. 51: How to maintain: make the parts check each other. Also, a federal system divides power further.--Madison (or Hamilton)." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "The Godlike." The Essential Goethe, edited and translated by Matthew Bell. Princeton University Press, 2018.

Madison, James. "No. 14: Proposed union not too large for republican government.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Economical Reform." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

Madison, James. "No. 10: An extensive republic a remedy for mischiefs of faction.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

Schiller, Friedrich. "Don Carlos." Don Carlos and Mary Stewart, translated by Hilary Collier Sy-Quia. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 4.

Wollstonecraft, Mary. "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters." The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Marilyn Butler and Janet Todd. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2020.