Founding Issues
Government

1. "The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all Government."
   
   - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.17
2. "Influence is not Government."
   
   - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.17
3. "Let us have a Government, by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured."
   
   - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.17
4. "Republicanism in not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind."
   
   - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and aranger, 1854, p.20
5. "It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of Democratical Governments, that the people must feel before they see. When this happens, they are roused to action. Hence it is, that those kinds of government are so slow."
   
   - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and aranger, 1854, p.21
6. "It is one of the evils of Democratical Governments, that the people, not always seeing, and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act right; but then evils of this nature seldom fail to work their own cure."
   
   - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and aranger, 1854, p.21
7. "Why is it that next to the birthday of the Savior of the World, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the 4th of July]? Is is not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That is laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?"
   
   - United States Founding Father, John Quincy Adams, John Quincy Adams, "An Oration Delivered Before the Inhabitants of the Town of Newburyport at their Request on the Sixty-First Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence", July 4, 1837, (Newburyport: Charles Whipple, 1837), p. 5
8. "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. ... Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"
   
   - United States Founding Father, John Adams, "The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, ed. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1854), Vol. IX, p. 229, October 11, 1798

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