The Federalist Papers  ## Metadata - Author: [[Alexander Hamilton and James Madison]] | [[3. Resources/Authors/Alexander Hamilton and James Madison|Alexander Hamilton and James Madison]] - Full Title: The Federalist Papers - Category: #books - Kindle: [Open in Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXBHGCY1) - Document Tags: [[Education]] ## Document Notes ## Highlights - For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. ([Location 142](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=142)) - As a nation we have made peace and war; as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies; as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states. ([Location 213](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=213)) - As to those just causes of war which proceed from direct and unlawful violence, it appears equally clear to me that one good national government affords vastly more security against dangers of that sort than can be derived from any other quarter. ([Location 307](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=307)) - Should the people of America divide themselves into three or four nations, would not the same thing happen? Would not similar jealousies arise, and be in like manner cherished? ([Location 424](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=424)) - The proposed confederacies will be DISTINCT NATIONS. Each of them would have its commerce with foreigners to regulate by distinct treaties; and as their productions and commodities are different and proper for different markets, so would those treaties be essentially different. ([Location 453](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=453)) - Different commercial concerns must create different interests, and of course different degrees of political attachment to and connection with different foreign nations. ([Location 455](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=455)) - Let candid men judge, then, whether the division of America into any given number of independent sovereignties would tend to secure us against the hostilities and improper interference of foreign nations. ([Location 466](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=466)) - To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of independent, unconnected sovereignties in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages. ([Location 479](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=479)) - we have had sufficient experience to enable us to form a judgment of what might be expected if those restraints were removed. ([Location 575](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=575)) - No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. ([Location 904](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=904)) - A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. ([Location 939](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=939)) - The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended. ([Location 942](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=942)) - By enlarging too much the number of electors, you render the representatives too little acquainted with all their local circumstances and lesser interests; as by reducing it too much, you render him unduly attached to these, and too little fit to comprehend and pursue great and national objects. ([Location 960](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=960)) - let us make a firm stand for our safety, our tranquillity, our dignity, our reputation. Let us at last break the fatal charm which has too long seduced us from the paths of felicity and prosperity. ([Location 1377](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=1377)) - If the judges were not embarked in a conspiracy with the legislature, they would pronounce the resolutions of such a majority to be contrary to the supreme law of the land, unconstitutional, and void. ([Location 1541](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=1541)) - The inordinate pride of State importance has suggested to some minds an objection to the principle of a guaranty in the federal government, as involving an officious interference in the domestic concerns of the members. ([Location 1938](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0BXBHGCY1&location=1938)) ## Related - [[3. Resources/Readwise/Books/Design for How People Learn|Design for How People Learn]] - [[3. Resources/Readwise/Books/How to Read a Book|How to Read a Book]] - [[3. 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