Hi @stevescoins ! As a "collector" of Founding Father quotes I am always happy to see them cited by others. That said, I do not think your second quotation (by Washington) is accurate. I could certainly be mistaken, but I do not recognize the first half. The second half is clearly from a letter to Lafayette dated February 7, 1788, in which he discusses his support for the Constitution. Washington writes,
"With regard to the two great points (the pivots on which the whole machine must move) my Creed is simply:
1st That the general Government is not invested with more Powers than are indispensably necessary to perform [the] functions of a good Government; and, consequently, that no objection ought to be made against the quantity of Power delegated to it.
2ly That these Powers (as the appointment of all Rulers will forever arise from, and, at short stated intervals, recur to the free suffrage of the People) are so distributed among the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, into which the general Government is arranged, that it can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarcchy, an Oligarchy, an Aristocracy, or any other despotic or oppressive form; so long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the People."
ALSO, how did you indent your quotations to separate them from the rest of the text body??
thank you for the correction and source!
to indent, you will use the ">" character at the beginning of the line; each subsequent line will be part of the quote, to end the indent, simply skip a line or introduce a new Markdown symbol (Markdown is the "language" for formatting Steemit)