Gouverneur Morris Quotes

1752–1816

Gouverneur Morris I (January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a native of New York City who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation.

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It was a nefarious institution. It was the curse of heaven on the states where it prevailed.

Constitutional Convention (1787)

It is not easy to be wise for all times, not event for the present much less for the future; and those who judge the past must recollect that, when it was the present the present was future

Every Society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted. (August 9 1797)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gouverneur Morris (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.