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“Changes are necessary; but, what they ought to be, what they will be, and how and when to be produced, are arduous questions. I feel for the cause of liberty, and for the honour of my countrymen who have so nobly asserted it, and who, at present, so abuse its blessings. If it should not take root in this soil, little pains will be taken to cultivate it in any other.”

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“A reluctance to taxes, an impatience of government, a rage for property and little regard to the means of

acquiring it”

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“Are we in a condition to resent or to repel the aggression? We have neither troops, nor treasury, nor government. Are we even in a condition to remonstrate with dignity?”

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"Government that power without which government is but a name." 

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“But whatever may be the ability of nations or individuals, we can have no right to hope, much less to expect the aid of others, while we show so much unwillingness to help ourselves. It can no longer be a doubt to Congress that our public credit is gone.”

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“This is ostensible…indeed the State neither pays anything to the federal Treasury, nor supports her Delegates.”

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Is public credit an indispensable resource in time of public danger? We seem tohave abandoned its cause as desperate and irretrievable.

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George Washington to James Warren Table 4

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George Washington to James Warren Table 4

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“In a word, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance; Congress a nugatory body, their ordinances being little attended to.”

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"If you tell the Legislatures they have violated the treaty of peace and invaded the
prerogatives of the confederacy they will laugh in your face."