Jakub Jermář

“If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations.”
― James Madison, The Federalist Papers

“Neither dynasty, nor language, nor religion brought about a Swiss national identity that could bolster a Swiss political nation. Instead, modern Switzerland seems in an important sense the result of its inhabitants' own decisions - a Willensnation, a nation resting on its inhabitants' will - and of its own and its neighbours' willingness to accept its various forms through the centuries as a single and continuous political unit.”
― Clive H. Church and Randolph C. Head

“The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of which they consist.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers