The Federalist Papers in Modern Language  ## Metadata - Author: [[Mary E. Webster]] | [[3. Resources/Authors/Mary E. Webster|Mary E. Webster]] - Full Title: The Federalist Papers in Modern Language - Category: #books - Kindle: [Open in Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BV452N9) - Document Tags: [[Education]] ## Document Notes ## Highlights - It has been often said that the people of this country will decide the important question of whether societies can establish a good government by careful thought and choice.  Or whether people are forever destined to be governed only by accident and force. ([Location 140](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=140)) - we are not always sure that people who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists. ([Location 162](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=162)) - Moderation is important.  Nothing is more repugnant than the intolerant spirit that has, at all times, characterized political parties.  In politics, as in religion, it’s absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword.  Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. ([Location 164](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=164)) - Those who argue with enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be demonized as being fond of despotic power and hostile to liberty. ([Location 171](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=171)) - History teaches us that of the men who have overturned the liberties of republics, most began their career by proclaiming their devotion to the people.  They gain position by arousing people’s prejudices and end as tyrants. ([Location 178](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=178)) - Government is an indispensable necessity.  It is equally undeniable that, whatever its form, the people must cede some of their natural rights to the government to vest it with requisite powers. ([Location 216](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=216)) - Government is an indispensable necessity.  It is equally undeniable that, whatever its form, the people must cede some of their natural rights to the government to vest it with requisite powers. ([Location 217](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=217)) - Admittedly, this plan is only recommended, not imposed.  Remember, it is neither recommended for blind approval nor blind rejection.  Rather, it is submitted for the sedate, candid consideration that the magnitude and importance of the subject demands, and that it certainly should receive. ([Location 264](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=264)) - The safety of the people of America not only depends on their not giving other nations just causes for war but, also, on their not putting themselves in situations that invite hostility. ([Location 395](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=395)) - motives include: a thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, and private compacts to aggrandize or support particular families or partisans.  These, and a variety of other motives that affect only the mind of the monarch, lead him to start wars not sanctified by justice or the interests of his people.  And they deserve our attention. ([Location 402](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=402)) - In drafting treaties, one government will regard both the interest of the whole and the specific interests of the parts of the whole.  It can use the resources and power of the whole to defend a particular part more easily and expeditiously than state governments or separate confederacies that lack the unity of system. ([Location 438](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=438)) - If they see our national government is efficient and well administered, our trade prudently regulated, our militia organized and disciplined, our resources and finances discreetly managed, our credit reestablished, our people free, contented and united, they will be more disposed to cultivate our friendship than provoke our resentment. ([Location 469](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=469)) - The most devoted advocates for three or four confederacies cannot reasonably assume they would remain equal in strength, even if it was possible to form them so at first. ([Location 507](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=507)) - To expect continued harmony between individual, unconnected sovereignties in the same neighborhood would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and the accumulated experience of the ages. ([Location 562](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=562)) - Whether favorites of a king or of people, men have too often abused their positions of public trust by using the pretext of public good to sacrifice the national tranquility for personal advantage or gratification. ([Location 570](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=570)) - Those who have property and those who are without property always have different interests.  Likewise, creditors and debtors. ([Location 1017](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=1017)) - Do we have commitments that should be honored?  These are constantly and unblushingly violated. ([Location 1501](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=1501)) - A weak constitution must end in dissolution either from a deficiency in power or the usurpation of powers necessary for the public safety. ([Location 2099](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07BV452N9&location=2099)) ## 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. Resources/Readwise/Books/Montessori at Home Guide|Montessori at Home Guide]] - [[3. 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